Scientists 3D-print human femur with real bone strength, offering low-cost solutions for surgery, research, and future bone ...

The bone was found at the Angeac-Charente excavation site, where in 2010 paleontologists extracted another femur, also over six feet long. Since then, scientists have succeeded in rebuilding over ...

It takes about 10 to 16 pounds of pressure to break the average bone, although the skull and femur are much tougher to break. The skeletal system has two distinct parts.

A rock spotted by NASA's Curiosity rover on Mars that looks like a femur bone, is actually just a weathered Martian rock formation. NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS A bizarre snapshot of the surface of Mars ...

Two years after a boater’s disappearance, a human femur bone was found on the shoreline, police said. Photo from Palos Verdes Estates Police Department Remains found on a beach have been ...

The knee is a meeting place for four bones — the femur (thigh bone), tibia (shinbone), fibula (calf bone), and patella (kneecap). It requires several ligaments to keep these bones in place and ...

This is where the femur meets the pelvis to create the hip joint. The spine, or vertebral column , is a tower of bone that consists of 24 irregular-shaped bones along with the nine fused bones in ...

A group of North Texas doctors and scientists printed part of a human femur—the longest and strongest bone in the body—that ...

The femur bone is over six feet long and is thought to have belonged to a sauropod – a subgroup of herbivorous, long-necked and four-legged dinosaurs common in the Jurassic era.