People often fracture or break the bones in their hands or wrists after traumatic injuries. Fractures can cause pain and swelling around the injury. Fractures can also change the position of your ...

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A major fossil discovery about our ancient ancestor has occurred in Kenya. Researchers have found hand and foot bones belonging to Paranthropus boisei — an extinct human relative who lived over 1.5 ...

A fossil hand bone from almost 2 million years ago belonged to an early human ancestor who may have been much more like us than other prehumans existing then, researchers say. The bone from the "pinky ...

Newly discovered African fossils lend a hand to suspicions that an ancient hominid outside our own genus, Homo, made and used stone and bone tools. Even with recovered foot fossils, Mongle’s team ...

THE discovery of a 1.8-million-year-old pinky bone suggests that modern human hands, good at tool use but bad at tree climbing, evolved earlier than we thought. The bone found in Tanzania’s Olduvai ...

Have you ever wondered why robots are unable to walk and move their bodies as fluidly as we do? Some robots can run, jump, or dance with greater efficiency than humans, but their body movements also ...

New research suggests pre-Homo human ancestral species, such as Australopithecus africanus, used human-like hand postures much earlier than was previously thought. The distinctly human ability for ...