The humerus is your upper arm bone. It is the longest bone in the upper part of your body and is connected to many important tendons and ligaments. The top of the humerus is part of the shoulder ...

In the 1990s, a team from Museums Victoria identified the humerus bone, in the upper arm between the shoulder and the elbow, as once belonging to the Kryoryctes cadburyi, an egg-laying monotreme.

The humerus bone – which is the upper arm bone between the shoulder and elbow – is the only bone known that belongs to the extinct species, Kryoryctes cadburyi, named in 2005. Outwardly, the single ...

Ball and socket joints also allow flexion and extension. Flexion of the shoulder joint occurs when the humerus (upper arm) moves forwards from the rest of the body, which happens at the end of an ...