When did the first hominins start to walk upright? Recent studies of an upper leg bone from *Sahelanthropus tchadensis* ...

Horse racing has seen sharp declines in most types of equine musculoskeletal fatalities, but reductions to one particular type of injury— the shoulder fracture—have been less dramatic.

(Reuters) -A new analysis of a pigeon-sized Archaeopteryx fossil in the collection of the Field Museum in Chicago is ...

The humerus, pulled from a well-preserved ancient layer of sediment, belonged to a new extinct species of duck named ...

Transhumeral surgery is a life-changing medical procedure that offers hope to individuals who have lost part of their upper arm, often due to trauma, infection, or medical conditions such as cancer.

Standing upright doesn’t seem like a task we should have to consciously put effort toward. The ability to keep the body ...

New fossil evidence suggests echidnas evolved from a water-dwelling ancestor, not a land-based one. The bone structure ...

A 3-hour on-line component to be viewed prior to the lab course will provide background knowledge of upper extremity anatomy and cadaver lab safety. Participants will be provided with the unique ...

To shed more light on echidna evolution, Hand and her colleagues reexamined a humerus (upper forelimb bone) from the extinct monotreme Kryoryctes cadburyi, which lived in what is now southern Victoria ...

The fossil, a humerus, or upper arm bone, was discovered in 1993 at Dinosaur Cove in southeastern Australia. From the outside, the specimen looked more like a bone from a land-dwelling echidna than a ...

But an analysis of a single humerus bone from Kryoryctes cadburyi — a prehistoric monotreme mammal that lived in what is now Victoria, Australia during the Early Cretaceous epoch — suggests that ...

A bone from 108 million years ago In our study published today in PNAS, we gleaned new data from a 108-million-year-old mammal humerus (arm bone), found 30 years ago at Dinosaur Cove, Victoria ...