The 1990 Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act requires universities, museums, and federal agencies to inventory their archeological collections to prepare for the repatriation of skeletons to their Native American descendants. The loss of these collections will be a detriment to the study of North American osteology, but the inventory and repatriation process has increased the...

Citation: Jaquier VP, Fraser NC, Furrer H and Scheyer TM (2017) Osteology of a New Specimen of Macrocnemus aff. M. fuyuanensis (Archosauromorpha, Protorosauria) from the Middle Triassic of Europe: Potential Implications for Species Recognition and Paleogeography of Tanystropheid Protorosaurs. Front. Earth Sci. 5:91. doi: 10.3389/feart.2017.00091 Osteology of a New Specimen of Macrocnemus aff. M...

Momotidae (motmots) is found throughout Latin America between Mexico and northern Argentina. Given the absence of detailed studies of cranial osteology of Momotidae in the literature, this article presents a comprehensive description of the variation of the cranial osteology in all nine species of Momotidae and compares the results with published studies of other families of Coraciiformes and f...

Front cover: Cover image: See J. Jia et al., 'Comparative osteology of the hynobiid complex Liua-Protohynobius-Pseudohynobius (Amphibia, Urodela): I. Cranial anatomy Pseudohynobius’, this issue.

ancient India on osteology in an English dress. The only work with which we are acquainted in which any detailed description of ancient Indian medicine has been attempted, is the "Commentary on the Hindu System of Medicine," published in 1845 by Thomas Alexander Wise, of the Bengal Medical Service, Civil Surgeon of Hughli and Principal of the Hughli College. That work summarizes the whole syste...