If Dr. Jennifer Hellier could give Anatomy in Clay® models a beating heart, she might find a troupe of MANIKEN® models following her...

Question: What do you get when you combine seaweed and modern technology? Answer: Squishy gels and a human heart! OK, technically it’s a...

At what point did the big bad wolf become humanity’s best friend? How did it happen, and who initiated contact —the wolf or the human?...

Does the pandemic impact our anatomy? Yes. In the beginning of 2020, a spiky protein latched itself into our bloodstreams and proceeded...

If you’re reading this and you’re American, there’s a slight chance you might have a tiny little bone on the back side of your knee. It’s...

Microevolution Part One focused on changes in anatomy that we — Homo Sapiens — have undergone in the past couple thousand years. Part Two...

Let’s start at the beginning, shall we? Speculation as to our origin story as a species has existed, well, probably since our origin — or...

Bones have gotten a bad rap in popular culture over the years. If they don’t represent death (hello, Grim Reaper), they portend a bad...

The silver lining of all the canceled in-person meetings, conferences, and classes could be finding one teacher that inspires you despite...

Once again, it’s time for another round-up of all the anatomy news that’s fit to blog about! Time and Travel Tripping For generations,...

When you work within the Anatomy in Clay curriculum and use the special clay to craft parts of the body, it’s easy to think of those body...

Whether you're in town or country, a hike around our neighbors can unveil scores of species of mammals and birds every day. In our...

Once again, it’s time for another round-up of all the anatomy news that’s fit to blog about! Mapping Cells Have you used Google Earth? As...

Behold the cynodont. (Sounds like: sign-uh-daunt.) Cynodonts gave rise to all living mammals about 250 million years ago. Or so. These...

Once again, it’s time for another round-up of all the anatomy news that’s fit to blog about! Dinosaur Tail This one got a lot of...

Keep moving! Good blood circulation is vital to health. And movement helps move blood. The heart gets a lot of the credit for...

No matter how far you go back in the history of human evolution—actually, in the history of all living organisms on planet Earth—there...

One thing Jon Zahourek routinely emphasizes is that a model of human anatomy is always close at hand. Yourself. It’s always there as a...

Isn’t it amazing that we organisms—humans, dogs, bugs, horses, and nearly all others—follow a pattern of development, true to course,...

We can’t recommend a recent episode of the Radiolab podcast—Man Against Horse—highly enough. It includes: · Pigs on a treadmill · Humans...