Bone can heal itself, but not always in the ways we expect. Some animals regrow entire limbs. Others, like humans, can only ...

In a discovery that rewrites our understanding of human evolution, scientists have unearthed extraordinarily rare fossils on the Indonesian island of Flores, including an adult limb bone so tiny ...

Limb bones are the densest and strongest kind ... the name referring to the bipedal species in the human evolutionary lineage. The hominins who made the Olduvai Gorge bone tools used a technique ...

An assemblage of tools found in Tanzania that was fashioned about 1.5 million years ago from the limb bones of elephants and hippos reveals what scientists are calling a technological breakthrough for ...