The human skeleton is made up of more than 200 ... and bones like the ones you find in the arms and legs help it move. But bones don’t move on their own. They’re attached to muscles that ...

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 ...

The oldest human fossils on Japan's mainland were found in a limestone quarry near Hamakita, 40 km east of Ushikawa.

If it’s dead—especially if it’s human or another primate—then forensic ... s Office as a consultant specializing in the identification of skeletal remains. By careful study of the bones, Wheatley can ...

"Lucy's skeletal remains will be displayed in Europe for the first time ever," Fiala said. The exhibition will also feature ...

Even so, these scientists had made "detailed and very accurate" descriptions, and also collected large numbers of fossilized skeletal ... of a femur bone from the leg of a human who had lived ...

However, their teeth, as well as their leg and pelvis bones, exhibit human-like characteristics ... appearance of its skull, the erectus skeleton is very similar to that of modern humans, although ...

The 3.2-million-year-old set of bones, discovered in 1974, was once considered as belonging to the earliest known member of ...