A bone discovered in Taiwan turns out to have belonged to a Denisovan, a lineage previously identified only thousands of ...

So far, the only known Denisovan fossils include partial jawbones, a few teeth and part of a finger bone found in caves in Siberia and Tibet. Some scientists believe fossils found in a cave in ...

Bones: Fingers and thumbs The average person flexes their finger joints 25 million times in a lifetime. Fingertips are sensitive enough to detect an object if it moves justone thousandth of a ...

The Pittsburgh Pirates got good news with Endy Rodriguez’s right index finger injury, as hand specialists confirmed that ...

A dinosaur fossil discovered in Mongolia boasts the largest ever complete claw, but the herbivorous species only used it to grasp vegetation ...

Some conditions cause the finger or toe joint tissue to thicken, making movement difficult. This may affect how the joint bends and may feel like it is locking up. A person may also experience ...

Jawbones from extinct hominins in Indonesia, Neanderthal teeth from Israel, and ancient human finger bones unearthed in Saudi Arabia have all at one point spent time in his lab at Australian National ...

So far, the only known Denisovan fossils include partial jawbones, a few teeth and part of a finger bone found in caves in Siberia and Tibet. Some scientists believe fossils found in a cave in ...

This claw is actually three-dimensional and forms a sheath around the underlying finger bone, similar to what we see in the paws of dogs and cats.” The researchers think the claws were an ...