That first dig was significant — the skeleton bones included rear limbs, making it the first evidence of a land-based snake ...

One big cat in the U.S. stands out for its extraordinary jumping ability clearing over 20 feet in a single leap thanks to powerful hind legs flexible spines and perfect muscle coordination. This ...

The first whales once swam the seas by wiggling large hind feet, research now suggests. These new findings shed light on the mysterious shift these leviathans made away from land. The ancestors of ...

Along with a complex network of ligaments, tendons, muscles, and nerves, there are 19 bones in the forefoot of each of your feet. Causes of forefoot pain include metatarsalgia, sesamoiditis, and ...

In February, a "bonecrushing" 7-foot long crocodile –­ nicknamed the "T. Rex of its time" –­ that walked on all fours but but used its hind legs to run 230 million years ago, was discovered ...

It is certainly a time to get out there and exercise, but you want to make sure the shoes you get have good support from the hind foot to the mid foot. Skip Navigation Share on Facebook ...

Near the sprawl of the Capital Beltway, an amateur paleontologist found what he says are the first footprints ever uncovered of a 6-foot-long (2-meter-long) plant-eating dinosaur that roamed the ...

When put together the complete left hind foot of Thylacoleo is quite different from that of a cat. Cats are digitigrade , or they are standing up on their “tippy toes” all the time.

KENNETT SQUARE, Pa. -- Barbaro's right hind bones are healing so well his cast could have been off by now, if not for the laminitis in his other hind leg. Dr. Dean Richardson said Tuesday that the ...

Kentucky Derby winner Barbaro has been euthanized after new setbacks in the attempt to save the colt's life after a broken hind leg ended his career in the Preakness Stakes race in May. Barbaro ...