It turns out the standard advice to stay off a broken leg bone for at least six weeks is based less on scientific evidence and more on cultural caution—physicians like to play it safe.

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 ...

Officials have determined that a leg bone found by a dog in December and a skull found months earlier belong to the same person.The coroner's office said that the left tibia, which is a bone in the ...