A look through the Brainerd Dispatch archives with Terry McCollough combing the microfilm for tidbits of history through the decades going back to 1924.

Oxen are some of the world’s strongest animal species, which is why they were used to perform many tasks and pull heavy wagons. But are bison and buffalo just as strong, or do they have other ...

Greater force is usually needed to break the femur than other bones in the leg. Pain, loss of range of motion, and reduced strength after a femur fracture may affect the hip and knee, further ...

The two major peroneal muscles (peroneus longus and peroneus brevis) are situated on the outside of the lower leg, just adjacent to the calf muscles. The peroneal tendons course along the outer side ...

If you're looking to build stronger legs, Tami recommends following a structured approach rather than simply doing squats every day. "I would recommend someone follow a structured strength training ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. In this photo provided by the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), researcher Ignacio de la Torre holds ...

WASHINGTON — Early humans were regularly using animal bones to make cutting tools 1.5 million years ago. A newly discovered cache of 27 carved and sharpened bones from elephants and hippos found ...

Much older origins of bone toolmaking were suggested by the identification of a 1.4-million-year-old hippo’s leg bone fashioned into a cutting or sawing tool, which had gone unexamined since its ...

Deep in a trench in Tanzania, researchers found dozens of tools crafted from animal bones some 1.5 million years old. By Carl Zimmer Humans, unlike most other species, have a knack for making tools.

A 1.5-million-year-old cache of animal-bone tools reveals that ancient humans systematically crafted with this material much earlier than previously thought. Researchers uncovered 27 bone ...

The oldest collection of mass-produced prehistoric bone tools reveal that human ancestors were likely capable of more advanced abstract reasoning one million years earlier than thought ...