A rare Neanderthal fetus reveals that many traits distinguishing Neanderthals from modern humans likely developed only after birth.

* Osteomalacia, or soft bone disease, is caused by vitamin D deficiency and can silently affect pregnant women * Women with osteomalacia were five times more likely to need assisted //deliveries * ...

Neanderthal babies have always been hard to study, mostly because their remains are so rare. That scarcity has left one of the oldest arguments in human origins unsettled: were Neanderthals following ...

Image courtesy of Paola Cerrito and Timothy Bromage. Depending on whom you ask, giving birth can be a miraculous, horrifying, incredible, painful, or primal experience. In most cases, it transforms ...

The earliest months of Neanderthal life have remained one of the least understood chapters of human evolution. Fossils from ...

Reproduction permanently alters females' bones in ways not previously known, a team of anthropologists has found. Its discovery, based on an analysis of primates, sheds new light on how giving birth ...

Doubling the vitamin D dose for premature, very low birth weight infants can safely give their tiny bones a big advantage, offering hope for a stronger start in life. Study: Effects of high-dose ...