The foot is an intricate part of the body, consisting of 26 bones, 33 joints, 107 ligaments, and 19 muscles. Scientists group the foot’s bones into into the phalanges, tarsal bones, and ...

Reid Reimers of SciShow explained how humans evolved from certain ancestral species to have 26 bones reside in the feet. This is one quarter of all human bones. It turns out that this incredible ...

For everything to work together, the foot bones first had to evolve to accommodate ... Studies such as this new one show that early human ancestors must have able been to walk upright for millions ...

ape-faced human ancestor walked steadily on two feet. To get a picture of how Lucy's species, Australopithecus afarensis, moved, scientists compare fossils to the bones of modern humans ...

Certain bones of the hands, feet, arms, and legs also indicate age ... this creature likely had a face more like a gorilla's than like a human's today. Taking their cues from the fossils ...

There, prior excavations revealed six individuals whose bones had been dismembered and butchered, including potential human chew marks on hand, foot and rib bones. But there is no evidence that ...