The 25-year-old went back into the operating room, and doctors cut open his arm to check on the thumb bone hiding inside, according to the report. To their relief, the bone was still alive.

Initially, these bones were identified as a human arm bone (humerus) and the head of a human femur, thought to belong to an individual who lived more than 20,000 years ago. Despite the initial ...

I was walking along and I saw what looked like a legbone sticking out, then when I looked down on the road I found an ulna [forearm], an arm bone and a collarbone. "I couldn't leave them there on ...

The bone of the thumb was “banked” in the man’s arm, appearing on X-rays just below the wrist. Kafiabadi, et al (2025) Journal of Medical Case Reports Once the bone was safely back inside ...