One of the most bizarre-looking land mammals is the enormous yet gentle elephant, with its huge ears, long trunk, and those ...

QUESTION: Why do our feet have so many bones? ANSWER: Human feet each have 26 bones, along with many muscles and joints. This seems like a lot, but we can do a lot of things with all of these bones.

The foot bones of a toddler who died 3 million years ago show that baby pre-humans could both walk upright like modern humans and scamper up trees like apes, researchers said Wednesday. The ...

Question: Can being overweight give you sore feet? My feet are OK during the day, but if I wake during the night they are sore until I move them around a bit. I do have a bit of a bunion, I think, but ...

Michaela Davert, 25, was born with osteogenesis imperfecta Type III, a condition that makes a person more likely to fracture their bones Jordan Greene is Society and Culture writer-reporter at PEOPLE.