femur

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Researchers confirmed that the fossil belonged to a juvenile by examining growth patterns in a thin section of its femur bone.

From Science Daily

Their goal was to estimate how much stress gravity and body weight placed on the femur when the animals stood on two legs.

From Science Daily

Far out in the desert, the researchers gaped at the six-foot-long femur, the jaw, teeth, and base of the crest.

From Barron's

The new method, developed in the US, involved placing a lengthening nail - known as a motorised telescopic nail - on the surface of Alfie's femur, the long bone in the thigh.

From BBC

Researchers have so far recovered 49 bone pieces including a femur, vertebrae and ribs, it added.

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