Twenty-five hundred years ago the Spartans were the indisputable military power in Greece. No city had warriors as fierce and ...

An early mention of a prosthetic comes from Herodotus, who tells the story of Hegesistratus, an ancient Greek diviner who cut off his foot.

A new wave of fossil studies reveals that armored dinosaurs weren’t rare; they were evolutionary powerhouses. From ankylosaurs to stegosaurs, these creatures developed plate-like defenses not just for ...