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 ...

A young mother whose arm broke ... revealed her humerus had broken under the pressure of the 13cm tumour growing on it and she was diagnosed with osteosarcoma, a form of primary bone cancer ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

In the 1990s, a team from Museums Victoria identified the humerus bone, in the upper arm between the shoulder and the elbow, as once belonging to the Kryoryctes cadburyi, an egg-laying monotreme.

In 2004, anthropologists on the Indonesian island of Flores discovered the remains of a diminutive hominin, Homo floresiensis. Now, a different team of researchers has discovered teeth and forearm ...

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 ...

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 ...