The left hip and leg bones from a young female Paranthropus robustus discovered in South Africa show she was extremely short ...

Lucy's pelvic, hip, and leg bones offered more proof. As in a human, Lucy's thighbones (femurs) angle in from the hip toward the knee. Her shinbones (tibiae) then descend straight to the ground ...

Remarkable new fossils from Swartkrans Cave reveal that a prehistoric relative of humans was also extremely small and ...

There is no right way to react to a human hip bone lying in the desert. My reaction, when I saw that flash of white in the soil a few feet from my boots, was a sharp inhale. That moment — that breath ...