Skeletal muscles are found around some of the openings of your body and all over other parts of your body between the bones. The muscle attaches at one end of the bone, stretches across a joint ...

How “Gray’s Anatomy,” a book of drawings featuring blood vessels, muscles, the nervous system and other squeamish things, came to be one of the world’s most widely read books ...

The thigh muscles contain the largest and most powerful muscle group in your whole body: the quadriceps. On top of that, they also include the sartorius, which is the longest one.

Auctions A $14,000 Renaissance Anatomy Book Fetches $2.2 Million at Auction This copy of the second edition of the classic Vesalius text bears his annotations toward a never-realized third edition.

The gluteus maximus is the largest muscle in the body by mass, D. Ceri Davies, former president of the Anatomical Society in the U.K., told Live Science by email.

"BODY WORLDS: The Anatomy of Happiness," which made its North American museum debut at the Science Museum of Virginia, runs through Sept. 2.