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

The complete humerus would have been 21.1 centimeters to 22 centimeters (8.3 inches to 8.7 inches) in length, the smallest human limb bone fossil ever found.

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 ...

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 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.

A group of North Texas doctors and scientists printed part of a human femur—the longest and strongest bone in the body—that ...

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