A paper appearing today in Nature Communications reports the discovery of extremely rare early human fossils from the Indonesian island of Flores, including an astonishingly small adult limb bone.

The 20,000-year-old fossilized bones of "Ushikawa Man," thought to be some of Japan's most ancient human fossils, are not what scientists believed they were, new research finds. Instead, they are the ...

A recently found jawbone, arm bone fragment and teeth collected from an archaeological site in Indonesia revealed a diminutive ancestor of humans dubbed a "hobbit" who lived around 700,000 years ago.

The humerus is your upper arm bone. It is the longest bone in the upper part of your body and is connected to many important tendons and ligaments. The top of the humerus is part of the shoulder joint ...

The School of Engineering and Applied Science, the Perelman School of Medicine, and the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia collaborated to micro-engineer a chip that models human bone marrow. Credit: ...

Construction workers made a grisly discovery in 2014 during excavation work on the grounds of Berlin's Freie Universitaet: fragments of human bones. Over the next two years, thousands more bone ...

FORT MYERS, Fla. — A human skull was found by a shopper at a thrift store in North Fort Myers, Florida, officials say. The Lee County Sheriff’s Office said “In a twist of 𝙣𝙤𝙩-𝙨𝙤-𝙝𝙪𝙢𝙚𝙧𝙪𝙨 ...