They also noted that denser bone that formed the hip joint, above the femur, experienced very little bone loss, strongly suggesting that the bone loss in the femur was most likely due to the ...

The fossil is of a femur bone, and after it was studied (the study was published in the journal Royal Society Open Science) it was found to be of the cerapoda dinosaur. What makes this fossil so ...

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 body are called the ossicles in the ear.

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 ...