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 ...

The human foot has 26 bones, 33 joints, and over 100 muscles, tendons and ligaments. Yet, most prosthetic feet on the market ...

New research published in Royal Society Open Science took a deep dive into how human feet change shape with size, and the ...

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 ...

The upper jawbone and partial cheek bone represent a mysterious unknown species that lived in present-day Spain between 1.1 ...

is quite human-like. Characteristics of its tibia (a lower leg bone) indicate that A. anamensis walked on two feet. This species includes "Lucy," the 3.2 million year old fossil found by Donald ...

While excavating the area, the team uncovered a shaft 13 feet deep with thousands of bones. The top layer mostly contained the remains of different types of animals that had evidence of human ...