The discovery of 1.5-million-year-old bone tools in Tanzania suggests early human ancestors had advanced cognitive abilities ...

"The discovery of the Hand of Irulegi has opened a new horizon to unravel the history behind the most enigmatic language ...

In 1998, a group of students found the Lapedo child after the group stumbled upon human hand bones at a rock shelter called ...

Ignacio de la Torre, co-director of the excavation and a CSIC researcher, says the bone tools are from the Acheulean period, ...

Their discovery, published today in Nature, pushes back the age of a large bone ... stone which designate it as a hand axe or other tool don't usually look at bones. But with the discovery of ...

Archaeologists have uncovered a collection of bone ... The hand ax emerged during a shift in early human innovation about 1.7 million years ago in a time called the Acheulean age that lasted ...

Several other bone tools resemble pear-shaped stone hand axes. Archaeologists consider stone hand axes the main innovation of the Acheulean industry, a tool tradition that emerged roughly 1.7 ...

Bone spurs in the hand can develop as a result of injury to the finger joints or more commonly from osteoarthritis, where the protective cartilage covering the joint surfaces of the fingers wears away ...

And they can also develop broken bones without a major injury—which could lead to a major fall and a hip fracture. Seniors who have osteoporosis are at a much higher risk of developing a hip fracture ...

so teenagers are in danger of suffering painful crumbling bones at a far younger age than their grandmothers. Most will be unaware they have the disease until they trip over a kerbstone and end up ...

Eating well can help boost your bones, immune system and more as you age. Along with exercise and other good habits, getting the right minerals and vitamins may improve your health. Try to get ...

For many years, scientists assumed that blood production took place in the bone marrow. But now, researchers are showing it's also happening in the lungs. Red blood cells carry oxygen from the ...