At just 88 millimetres long, the arm bone fragment belonged ... To get a more reliable measure, researchers needed bones from limbs or other parts of the skeleton. A breakthrough came in 2015 ...

The findings include the smallest ever human arm bone. “This very rare specimen confirms our hypothesis ... That’s about 2 inches shorter than the estimated height of the H. floresiensis skeleton from ...

By Carl Zimmer A new study describes 700,000-year-old teeth and arm bones ... of a modern human’s. Analyzing the cave floor, scientists determined the Homo floresiensis bones were somewhere ...

Finding fossils like shark teeth, crocodile teeth, whale bones and even a human bone along ... we might find a leg bone or an arm bone or just not this much of one skeleton, and that’s just ...

it is the smallest upper arm bone known from the hominin fossil record worldwide," said Professor Adam Brumm from Griffith University's Australian Research Centre for Human Evolution, a co-author ...

A 700,000-year-old fragment of arm bone has shed light on the origins of the early human species known as ... 106-centimetre female skeleton in Liang Bua, a cave on the western side of Flores ...

The partial skeleton was located in Ethiopia ... of Ethiopia when they noticed a small fragment of arm bone that looked like it came from a human-like creature. The pair quickly began searching ...