Metacarpals are a critical weight-carrying structure, so their size is a good indicator of horse body mass (in this study, metacarpal width declined in the same pattern as metacarpal lengths.) ...

Find out what you need to know about metacarpal fractures, including the causes, symptoms, treatment options, and how they may affect your health.

Metacarpals and metatarsals The palms of your hands are made up of five bones called metacarpals. You can see them when you clench your fists, because your knuckles are the ends of your metacarpals.

DIY-ers in northern Holland filled a large gap in a tile floor with precisely sliced cow bones several centuries ago.

Two metacarpals fused. The one is fully fused, the second one is partially fused, which means another eight weeks of rest, which will take us to around the middle of January.” ...

In modern times, human metacarpals are less dense in trabeculae than those of chimps and gorillas, probably because humans rarely use their hands to support their bodies during locomotion as apes do.

If you were to look at the metacarpals of a stegosaur from the top down you would see them arranged in a slight arc, while in many sauropods these bones had a more circular arrangement which, as ...

As with stegosaurs, the forefeet of ankylosaurs have been traditionally portrayed with the metacarpals—the bones of the forefoot just behind the fingers—being configured in a shallow arc shape.