Just what the heck is a hamate bone, and why has it claimed several superstars already this spring?

When football teams field an onside kick, they often field their “hands team.” Spring training has barely started, but MLB is already fielding its own version of a hands team – more accurately a hand ...

A tiny, overlooked wrist bone called the pisiform may have played a pivotal role in bird flight and it turns out it evolved far earlier than scientists thought. Fossils from bird-like dinosaurs in ...

An analysis of two theropod dinosaur fossils has shown that they had a type of carpal bone (pisiform) in their wrists—a bone considered important to flight in birds. Subscribe to our newsletter for ...