Move over Torvill and Dean. Britain has a great, new Winter Olympics pairing. Charlotte Bankes and Huw Nightingale won the ...

At the Milan Cortina Games, the American delegation may have the fastest equipment in the two-man and two-woman bobsled events—and it didn’t have to spend a dime for it.

Imagine needing a hobby and missing the thrill of competition so much that you become an Olympian. That’s exactly how ...

Canada’s skeleton team have been cleared of allegations they rigged a qualifying event for the Winter Olympics and denied rival athletes the chance to qualify for next month’s Games. USA’s Katie ...

An international research team has unveiled a significant discovery in human paleontology: an exceptionally well-preserved Homo habilis skeleton dating back more than 2 million years. The fossil, ...

The governing body for the winter sport of skeleton, the International Bobsled Skeleton Federation (IBSF), has dismissed complaints that the Canadian women’s team and its coach Joe Cecchini engaged in ...

Sporting tensions between the USA and Canada have erupted once again, this time in skeleton as next month’s Winter Olympics approach. The USA’s Katie Uhlaender, a five-time Winter Olympian in skeleton ...

Former U.S. skeleton athlete John Daly was once asked why anyone would decide to hurl themselves, head first, down an ice-coated mountainside chute on a thin sled with no safety equipment other than a ...

Ardi is the oldest known partial skeleton of a hominin and shows foot features that are transitioning from vertical climbing to bipedal walking. While Ardi has the primitive grasping big toe of the ...

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When did these blockhead dinosaurs get their domes? A new fossil is “the specimen we have all been waiting for.” In this artist's reconstruction, two pachycephalosaurs from the new species Zavacephale ...