The human little toe is shrinking, but not the way most people assume. A biologist explains relaxed selection, fused toe bones and why shoes aren't to blame.

A human foot looks compact from the outside, but inside it is an intricate load-bearing structure. Each typical adult foot contains 26 bones, so the two feet account for 52 of the 206 bones ...

A man developed painful swelling in his right middle finger and right big toe over the course of six weeks, causing the digits to take on a club-like shape. It turned out that the strange swelling was ...

A 55-year-old man’s swollen toes and fingers turned out to have a much stranger explanation than expected. In a recent case report, the man’s doctors detailed how some of his bones were “completely ...

The fifth metatarsal is the long bone on the outer edge of the foot that connects to your smallest toe, sometimes called the pinky toe. You have five metatarsals in your foot. Each metatarsal connects ...