In 1983, archaeologists were excavating a cave in South Africa when they came across a strange-looking femur bone. It dated back 7,000 years ago and belonged to some kind of antelope. X-rays ...

Inside the tomb, the team from Tulane University found a mosaic jade mask, human femur bones carved with writings, and spondylus shells, which Mayan royalty used as jewellery and currency.

University of Texas at Dallas mechanical engineers have designed a 3D-printed femur that could help doctors prepare for surgeries to repair bones and develop treatments for bone tumors. The engineers, ...

but didn’t initially spot the shaft of an upper leg bone. The blackened femur fragment was first noticed in 2004 by graduate student Aude Bergeret-Medina at the University of Poitiers ...