This hyper-realistic synthetic arm is built to mimic skin, muscle, and bone—but how does it hold up against the violent power ...

At just 88 millimetres long, the arm ... bone that connects the shoulder to the elbow. The fossil was missing both end pieces but could still provide some clues to the size of the ancient human ...

it is the smallest upper arm bone known from the hominin fossil record worldwide," said Professor Adam Brumm from Griffith University's Australian Research Centre for Human Evolution, a co-author ...

A 700,000-year-old fragment of arm bone has shed light on the origins of the early human species known as the "hobbit". The tiny piece of bone is from an early hobbit (Homo floresiensis ...

The findings include the smallest ever human arm bone. “This very rare specimen confirms our hypothesis that the ancestors of Homo floresiensis were extremely small in body size; however, it is now ...

For the first time in the world, live human bone tissue that was grown outside the body has been successfully transplanted into a person’s arm, thanks to a still-experimental procedure developed ...

“It is the smallest adult human arm bone ever,” said Gerrit van den Bergh, a co-author of the study and a paleontologist at the University of Wollongong, Australia. “It’s quite special.

A mysterious group of prehistoric hunter-gatherers who once inhabited the southern Texas coast may have created music in a hauntingly unconventional way—by transforming human bones into instruments.

By Carl Zimmer A new study describes 700,000-year-old teeth and arm bones ... of a modern human’s. Analyzing the cave floor, scientists determined the Homo floresiensis bones were somewhere ...