Also known as the femur, the thigh bone makes up about one quarter of your height. Feb. 18, 2013. Feb. 18, 2013. 1 min read. Save. New subscriber benefit! Copied to clipboard ...

That bone stretching meant Zachery had a metal cage around his leg with pins inserted in his thigh for six months. Now, more than two years later, Zachery, now 8, is cancer free and walking in the ...

The thigh-bone-looking rock actually looks different from a regular human femur. It's crooked, rather than straight, which only feeds the imagination when it comes to alien anatomy.

But now the complete genetic sequencing of a man's thigh bone, which is itself roughly 45,000 years old, suggests that we took a dip in the Neanderthal gene pool 50,000 to 60,000 years ago ...

Human bones make the best bone daggers, researchers studying weapons prized by the people of New Guinea have discovered. Using imaging, computer simulations and good-old-fashioned stabbing tests ...

A 14,000-year-old upper leg bone found in southwest China may come from a prehuman line of hominids that survived in East Asia long enough to mate with Homo sapiens, a controversial study ...