In October 2021, the Monterey County Coroner’s Division was presented with a gruesome puzzle: a white body bag containing ...

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

A group of North Texas doctors and scientists printed part of a human femur—the longest and strongest bone in the body—that mimics the strength, flexibility and overall mechanics of a real ...

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

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 ...

The humerus is the upper arm bone. Located in the upper arm, the humerus assists in gross movements and stabilization of the shoulder joint. Learn more.

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.

Prehistoric bone tool ‘factory’ hints at early development of abstract reasoning in human ancestors The oldest collection of mass-produced prehistoric bone tools reveal that human ancestors ...

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 used computed tomography (CT) ...

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.

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.