Officials have determined that a leg bone found by a dog in December and a skull found months earlier belong to the same person. The coroner's office said that the left tibia, which is a bone in ...

Live Science reports that bones from one of the smallest human ancestors, who lived two million years ago, were retrieved ...

The excavation of bone tools at Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania expands the range of ancient hominids’ cultural innovations.

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 ...

And yet, its humerus (an arm bone) is quite human-like. Characteristics of its tibia (a lower leg bone) indicate that A. anamensis walked on two feet. This species includes "Lucy," the 3.2 million ...

The uniform selection of the bones – large and heavy leg bones from specific animals ... At the time the tools were made, three different species of human ancestors lived in the same region ...

At Olduvai, a Spanish-led team of researchers found 27 tools made out of the leg ... these bones have not been properly identified in other archaeological sites," d'Errico said. As the human ...