The hunting and gathering activities of early humans required a high-calorie diet consisting of a variety of ...

Indian researchers at IIT-BHU have developed a portable, reagent-free device to detect early-stage bone cancer (osteosarcoma) ...

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

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

Bone tool shaped on a 1.5-million-year-old elephant humerus. Credit: CSIC Scientists have discovered 1.5-million-year-old standardized bone tools in Tanzania, pushing back the timeline of early ...

Advertisement Article continues below this ad A musical rasp found in Texas that was made from a humerus resembled bone instruments use by pre-Hispanic Mexican cultures, like the Aztecs.

A bone tool shaped on a 1.5-million-year-old elephant humerus CSIC While early human ancestors started making stone tools at least 2.6 million years ago, bone tools took much longer to appear.

Historical misidentification The Ushikawa fossils were initially identified as parts of a human humerus (upper arm bone) and femur (leg bone), believed to be over 20,000 years old. But Suwa’s team ...

The Ushikawa fossils were initially presented as a humerus bone from the upper arm and the end or head of a femur bone from the leg of a human who had lived more than 20,000 years ago.

Suwa said Japanese scientists at that time thought a different bone fragment known as "Akashi Man" was the earliest human fossil from mainland Japan, perhaps more than 780,000 years old; but the ...

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