Initially, these bones were identified as a human arm bone (humerus) and the head of a human femur, thought to belong to an individual who lived more than 20,000 years ago. Despite the initial ...

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 ...