The left hip and leg bones from a young female Paranthropus robustus discovered in South Africa show she was extremely short ...

Officials have determined that a leg bone found by a dog in December and a skull found months earlier belong to the same person. The coroner's office said that the left tibia, which is a bone in the ...

Lucy's pelvic, hip, and leg bones offered more proof. As in a human, Lucy's thighbones (femurs) angle in from the hip toward the knee. Her shinbones (tibiae) then descend straight to the ground ...

Early humans were regularly using animal bones to make cutting tools 1.5 million years ago. A newly discovered cache of 27 ...

The oldest human-crafted bone tools on record are 1.5 million years old, a finding that suggests our ancestors were much smarter than previously thought, a new study reports. The tools, made from ...

And yet, its humerus (an arm bone) is quite human-like. Characteristics of its tibia (a lower leg bone) indicate that A. anamensis walked on two feet. This species includes "Lucy," the 3.2 million ...

Ancient human relatives crafted sharp-edged tools ... by the identification of a 1.4-million-year-old hippo’s leg bone fashioned into a cutting or sawing tool, which had gone unexamined since ...

PRESENTER:'Our skeleton has over 200 bones from the largest - our leg bone, or our femur ... Biological processes of the human body. You could get a skeleton model and connect rubber bands ...