Aug 6 (Reuters) - When researchers excavated fossilized fragments of a rod-shaped bone 3-1/2 inches (88 mm) long at a site called Mata Menge on Indonesia's Flores island, the pieces initially were ...

You have full access to this article via your institution. At just 88 millimetres long, the arm ... bones in the laboratory and realized that some broken pieces belonged to a humerus — the ...

Most importantly, the new assemblage includes the first postcranial element, a distal shaft of an adult humerus (lower half of the upper arm bone). The recovery of a fossil limb bone from the Mata ...

The remains examined in the new study include a fragment of a humerus — the lower half of the upper arm bone — and two teeth discovered at a site known as Mata Menge, one of only two places on ...

But the new finds include a fragment of the upper arm bone, the humerus ... broken at roughly the mid-point of the humerus, meaning that the full-sized bone was twice its length.

The humerus bone – which is the upper arm bone between the shoulder and elbow – is the only bone known that belongs to the extinct species, Kryoryctes cadburyi, named in 2005. Outwardly ...

As first reported by IFLScience, Dr. Matthew Taylor, a biological anthropologist at Georgia's Augusta University, identified a musical rasp fashioned from a human humerus while studying bone ...

In our study published today in PNAS, we gleaned new data from a 108-million-year-old mammal humerus (arm bone), found 30 years ago at Dinosaur Cove, Victoria, by a team from Museums Victoria.

The humerus bone—which is the upper arm bone between the shoulder and elbow—is the only bone known that belongs to the extinct species, Kryoryctes cadburyi, named in 2005. Outwardly ...