The left hip and leg bones from a young female Paranthropus robustus discovered in South Africa show she was extremely short ...

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 ...

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 ...

We are the same: every human skeleton differs massively ... resulting in more circular tibias (lower leg bones). Tennis players, on the other hand, are an example of when the adaptations are ...

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 ...