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Anatomy

A researcher holds a tiny, brown monkey skull between his fingers. The skull is no bigger than the palm of his hand.

Rewriting the fossil record

Published Summer 2025

Associate Professor Siobhán Cooke uses fossilized teeth to better understand the history of the world / Johns Hopkins Magazine

A dusty, hilly field in Colombia on a sunny day

Paleontology

Terror bird fossil offers new insight into life 12 million years ago

Published Nov 4, 2024

While past terror bird fossils placed the meat-eating birds at 3 to 9 feet tall, new findings suggest that some were even bigger

Biology

Scientists pinpoint key to evolution of bird flight

Published Feb 6, 2024

By pairing PET scans of modern pigeons with studies of dinosaur fossils, scientists learn why some vertebrates fly

A person holds a white pill in the palm of their hand and a glass of water in the other

The best way to take a pill, according to science

Published Aug 16, 2022

Researchers examining the mechanics of drug dissolution and the natural anatomy of the stomach found that taking a pill while lying on your right side shortens the time it takes for medicine to be absorbed

Evolution

Lemurs in captivity

Published Winter 2021

PhD candidate Stephanie Canington studies how the care of captive primates has progressed over time / Johns Hopkins Magazine

Gorillas' skeletal secrets

Published Winter 2020

The bones of gorillas, our closest animal ancestors, offer clues to the evolution of osteoporosis—and how we might be able to avoid it / Johns Hopkins Magazine