MattiaATH, Getty Images In this new study, scientists made 3D scans of the toe bone joints from living and fossil human relatives, including primates such as apes and monkeys, and then compared ...
rather than the more solid bone found in the heels of other apes. First Family: toe bones Toe bones found among the First Family are long compared to those of humans, but they don't curve forward ...
The finger and toe bones are curved, suggesting climbing was still an important activity for this species There's a new addition to the family tree: an extinct species of human that's been found ...
The researchers also found a toe bone and rib fragments belonging to the prehistoric animal, an extinct relative of modern elephants that predates another of its cousins, the wooly mammoth.