A friendly competition turned into a bone-crushing defeat for one lady. Daisy Johnson, 24, snapped her bone during an intense arm wrestling match with a stranger who challenged her. “My arm felt like ...

A recently found jawbone, arm bone fragment and teeth collected from an archaeological site in Indonesia revealed a diminutive ancestor of humans dubbed a “hobbit” who lived around 700,000 years ago.

New fossils from Indonesia, including the smallest humerus ever found from an adult hominin, belonged to the tiny Homo floresiensis species, researchers said. By Carl Zimmer A new study describes ...

From your shoulders to your fingers, your arms have many moving parts: joints, bones, muscles, nerves, tendons and ligaments. Mysterious arm pain that seemingly comes out of nowhere can arise if any ...

The oldest evidence of mummification has been discovered in Vietnam, in the form of a single 14,000-year-old mummified arm. Unlike the Egyptian mummification practice more familiar to modern Western ...

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A machinery accident left a 25-year-old man with a mangled hand, but doctors got creative to save his thumb. Mike Hindle via Unsplash When patients experience extreme trauma, sometimes doctors have to ...