The neck epitomizes the dual nature of the human condition, the ways in which beauty and frailty are often entwined, two sides of the same coin in our biology, in our relationships—and, yes ...

If the human body were a building, our neck would arguably be the most poorly conceived room in the house, overflowing with functionally mismatched organs stuffed there to accommodate other design ...

Cut marks on a child's cervical vertebra found at Atapuerca in Spain suggests Homo antecessor was indiscriminate about cannibalism victims.

The neck is less than 1 per cent of the human body's surface area, but it plays an oversized role in our lives, reveals Kent Dunlap's engaging natural and cultural history. By Elle Hunt.

“In one small region—less than 1 percent of the body—the neck concentrates both the vitality and the vulnerability of the human condition,” Mr. Dunlap, a professor of biology at Trinity ...

Just like humans, giraffes are said to have seven bones in their neck, according to social media posts like the one below, shared to Reddit in 2021: ...

Buried in a human neck, a bullet. By Lyudmyla Khersonsky, translated by Olga Livshin and Andrew Janco from the Russian. Buried in a human neck, a bullet looks like an eye, sewn in, an eye looking ...

(THE CONVERSATION) I broke its neck. When making a vase at the potter’s wheel, I torqued its slippery neck clear off the pot as I tried to thin it into a graceful curve. I find vases gratifying ...

That day at the wheel, I realized that it was not unlike the human neck. Though only a small portion of the human body – about 1% by surface area – our necks have an outsize influence on our ...