Doctors hide thumb bone in man’s arm after work injury, then use it to build new one By Irene Wright. January 29, 2025 8:52 AM.

The 25-year-old went back into the operating room, and doctors cut open his arm to check on the thumb bone hiding inside, according to the report. To their relief, the bone was still alive.

A recently found jawbone, arm bone fragment and teeth collected from an archaeological site in Indonesia revealed a diminutive ancestor of humans dubbed a "hobbit" who lived around 700,000 years ...

A paper appearing today in Nature Communications reports the discovery of extremely rare early human fossils from the Indonesian island of Flores, including an astonishingly small adult limb bone.

A 700,000-year-old arm bone found on an Indonesian island is shedding light on the evolution of Homo floresiensis 1 — an ancient relative of modern humans nicknamed hobbit owing to its small ...

Item 1 of 3 A fragment (left) of the upper arm bone called the humerus - belonging to a diminutive extinct human species called Homo floresiensis, that dates to about 700,000 years ago and was ...