Within 48 hours, two human legs and a femur have washed up on the California shoreline, the Palos Verdes Estates Police ...

In biomechanical tests, it performed as well as a human femur. Researchers estimated each 3D-printed femur cost $7 to make. Li said 3D-printed bones have a range of potential applications.

Lying on the pebbles and rocks of the riverbed at low tide was a human femur, or upper leg bone. Carbon dating has since indicated it to be more than 5,000 years old, but having recognised it to ...