Your humerus is the long bone in your upper arm that's located between your elbow and shoulder. A fracture is one of the most common injuries to the humerus.

Medically reviewed by Jennifer Steinhoff, MD 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 ...

This tiny humerus belonged to an adult Homo floresiensis that lived on Flores Island around 700,000 years ago. Credit: Yousuke Kaifu. A 700,000-year-old arm bone found on an Indonesian island is ...

In a discovery that rewrites our understanding of human evolution, scientists have unearthed extraordinarily rare fossils on the Indonesian island of Flores, including an adult limb bone so tiny it ...

As first reported by IFLScience, Dr. Matthew Taylor, a biological anthropologist at Georgia's Augusta University, identified a musical rasp fashioned from a human humerus while studying bone ...