No tip-toeing around it, this foot bone could change the story of human evolution, or at least the story of human foot evolution. The bone is additional evidence that Australopithecus afarensis, an ...

SAGINAW COUNTY, MI — Investigators have suffered a setback in identifying a human foot found earlier this year along the Flint River in southern Saginaw County. The same complication is also keeping ...

The accessory navicular is an extra bone growth usually found on the inside part of the foot, near the navicular bone. It’s not part of a typical bone structure in humans, and therefore, not many ...

Breaking a bone in your foot may not be as major as fracturing larger bones, but it can still cause pain, deformity and disability.

The fifth metatarsal is the long bone on the outer edge of the foot that connects to your smallest toe, sometimes called the pinky toe. You have five metatarsals in your foot. Each metatarsal connects ...

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Your hands and feet are made up of dozens of little bones that all work together to allow you to perform everyday activities. If just one of these bones is injured or damaged, regular tasks can become ...