Image via Depositphotos. From rigid exoskeletons in crustaceans to flexible endoskeletons in mammals, animals have evolved a plethora of skeletal forms. Exoskeletons, found in arthropods such as crabs ...

When you think of a skeleton, you probably picture an endoskeleton, an internal support structure made of mineralized tissues. Vertebrates have rigid endoskeletons made of bone, which gets its ...

Researchers at the Biomimetics-Innovation-Center, Hochschule Bremen—City University of Applied Sciences, have made pioneering discoveries about how mechanical stress shapes the ultrastructure of ...