In a discovery that rewrites our understanding of human evolution, scientists have unearthed extraordinarily rare fossils on ...

Early hominins known colloquially as "hobbits" may have been shorter than scientists thought, a new analysis of teeth and bones has revealed. The 700,000-year-old fossilized remains belonged to ...

New fossils from Indonesia, including the smallest humerus ever found from an adult hominin, belonged to the tiny Homo floresiensis species, researchers said. By Carl Zimmer A new study describes ...

The new research—published today in Nature Communications—details the teeth, jaw, and the fragment of a humerus (the long bone in the upper arm) which belonged to at least four H. floresiensis ...

A new study reports the discovery of extremely rare early human fossils from the Indonesian island of Flores, including an astonishingly small adult limb bone. Dated to about 700,000 years old ...

Scientists 3D-print human femur with real bone strength, offering low-cost solutions for surgery, research, and future bone ...

To better understand their origins and purposes, Taylor conducted an in-depth analysis of 29 human bone artifacts that had been unearthed at prehistoric sites in South Texas, each dating back to ...

Bone strength started declining in the femur and tibia bones of the leg about 7,000 years ago in the Neolithic period, as rudimentary farming practices began to take hold, and continued until ...

By the age of 25, humans have 206 bones. When they are born, they have around 300 bones. Human hands have 27 small, intricate bones, while feet have 26.

There's over 200 bones in the human body, many of which we see taking quite a bit of trauma in the action-packed series. Using the series as a reference, Dr. Raynor explains everything we need to ...

The partial upper arm bone (humerus) found at the site. (Image credit: Yosuke Kaifu) "Adult bones leave traces of metabolism (we call it remodeling for bones) more than those of children," Kaifu said.