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.) ...

Metacarpals. The metacarpals are the bones that reach from the bottom of the fingers and thumb, the proximal phalanges, to the wrist. They make up the majority of your hand.

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.

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.

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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 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.