The intertarsal joint region of the specimen MES-NJU 57002 ().(a) BSE-SEM image of the square area in Fig. 1f, showing the tarsometatarsus at the top right of the image and the tibiotarsus on the ...

The tarsometatarsus, or ankle bone, of a thick-billed parrot. The bone was collected at an archeological dig in New Mexico during the 1950s. UT doctoral student John Moretti identified the bone as ...

The tarsometatarsus similarities to modern birds of prey "suggest they may have functioned similarly and maybe occupied an ecology not too unlike what we see today," said Alex Clark, ...

The tarsometatarsus similarities to modern birds of prey "suggest they may have functioned similarly and maybe occupied an ecology not too unlike what we see today," said Alex Clark, ...

The tarsometatarsus measures a record 9.1 centimetres. Based on the relative sizes of bones in penguin skeletons, Acosta Hospitaleche estimates P. klekowskii was 2.01 meters long from beak tip to ...

The three fossil specimens (from left to right), Avisaurus darwini, Avisaurus sp., and Magnusavis ekalakaensis, all of which are represented by a tarsometatarsus. They are all shown to scale with ...

"Among them, the tarsometatarsus is the best bone to identify a fossil owl," Smith told Live Science in an email. Sign up for the Live Science daily newsletter now.

This tarsometatarsus suggested the size of the penguin would have been around 6ft 6ins (2.01 metres) long from beak tip to toes. ‘[This]is the longest foot bone I’ve ever seen.