In the 1980s, an anatomical analysis in the 1980s of a plaster cast of the lost Akashi fossil indicated it was probably a fragment of a recent human arm bone that had been washed into a different ...

When the arm bone fragment, measuring just 3½ inches, was originally bagged, it was first labeled a possible bone fragment from a crocodile. The bone represents a human ancestor who likely stood ...

A farmer was left feeling unsettled when he discovered suspected human remains just outside a ... on the road I found an ulna ...

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 ...

According to a new study, the discovery sheds light on how the tiny, now-extinct human Homo floresiensis, dubbed the "hobbit", evolved. A 700,000-year-old fragment of arm bone has shed light on ...

A new analysis of teeth and a bone found on an Indonesian island reveal that "hobbits" were more than 2 inches shorter than we thought. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

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 ...

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 ...

JUST one in three people are confident they could name most of the key bones and muscles in the human body – with 17 ... those who have done so are the arm (17 per cent) or the foot (14 per ...