There are three main bones in the leg. The femur is the long bone in your thigh that connects your hip to your knee; it’s also your body's longest and strongest bone. There are two bones in your ...

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

A fossil leopard lower jaw next to a juvenile P. robustus skull fragment from Swartkrans. (Image credit: Jason L. Heaton) Size is a mystery Although the leg bones provide important new evidence ...

The left leg and hip bones belong to a Paranthropus robustus adult female that stood only three foot four inches tall, even more diminutive than the famous “Lucy.” P. robustus wasn’t a ...