A newly described Denisovan finger fossil holds a skeletal surprise, adding to the mystery of this extinct Stone Age crowd. A decade ago, scientists found a tiny fragment of a fossil pinkie bone ...

Neither player is going to get back to 100% health this season, but Roberts views Kershaw’s injury in a different light when compared to Freeman’s, in part because of there being more in the ...

This MRI image shows the various structures of the aye-aye’s hand. The pseudo-thumb is made up of the radial sesamoid bone, in red, and its cartilaginous extension called the prepollex, in pink.

The researchers found that the digit was a fifth finger bone from the right hand of an adolescent female Denisovan who likely died at about 13.5 years old.

Nationals fire-balling reliever Henry Rodriguez underwent surgery Friday to clean up bone spur in his throwing elbow, the first public mention that there was anything wrong with his right arm.

One of the colder nights of winter is coming tonight, as a cold weather advisory has been issued for much of Western North ...

Rare 85,000-year-old Finger Bone Complicates Our Understanding of African Migration The fossil builds on the theory that humans left Africa in multiple waves, and suggests they made it as far as ...

The condition in which people possess an extra finger or toe, i.e., a supernumerary digit, is called Polydactyly. This digit may look like a small skin (nubbin), a raised bump, or sometimes a ...

It was some Big Apple welcome. On his first visit to New York, a South African retiree says he lost a fingertip when a surly subway conductor slammed his window on it – and now the luckless t… ...

But when signals from the nail tissue are blocked, the nail and digit can’t regrow (bottom). Muscles and nail keratin are stained red in the image and collagen is green or blue. Takeo et al ...

Rare 85,000-year-old Finger Bone Complicates Our ... the middle digit of a finger bone, ... Groucutt does hope that this discovery might spur more research in regions that are usually ...