Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in zoology from the University of Reading and a master’s in wildlife documentary production from the University of Salford. Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in ...

Human flexibility in shoulders and elbows originated from ancient apes' need for safe tree descent. A new study reveals chimpanzees, unlike monkeys, used their upper limbs as a braking system, ...

A chimpanzee climbing up a tree. A new study from researchers at Dartmouth College suggests downclimbing played a role in the evolution of apes' range of motion. The reason we can throw a football or ...

The shoulder complex is an intricate function of four joints and a vast assortment of muscles that begin their attachment as high as the head and neck and continue down the spine to the pelvis and rib ...

You wake up one morning and reach to turn off the alarm clock. The movement produces a sudden sharp pain in your upper arm. The pain returns when you're washing your hair and again while you brush ...

In the boondocks of central Cuba, Christian Enmanuel Castellanos dreams of catapulting to stardom not through the traditional means of baseball or music, but his unusually extended and flexible ...