Skeletal muscles move the bones in the body. The skeletal system is made from bones and joints. The femur bone in the thigh is the longest and strongest bone in the body. The smallest bones in the ...

In 1983 archaeologists excavating a cave in South Africa discovered an unusual femur bone. It belonged to an unspecified antelope and was found to be 7,000 years old. X-rays revealed that three ...

On December 22nd of 2023, a Vietnamese patient underwent hours-long surgery in order to remove part of his pelvis and femur, as per the usual treatment for bone cancer. What was special here was ...

In the meantime, the femur remains with him ... "I want to be respectful because this was a person. "This bone was part of someone's leg, who was walking around here more than 5,000 years ...

In the 1950s, when they were discovered, the Ushikawa fossils were identified as parts of a human humerus (upper arm bone) and femur (leg bone), believed to be over 20,000 years old ...

We measured bone mineral content (BMC) and bone area at the lumbar spine, total body, and proximal femur. Proximal femur scans were also analysed for bone geometry and structural strength using the ...