The skeleton described in this new study ... toes with their heel not touching the ground. “ Diprotodontids are plantigrade animals, which means that their heel-bone makes contact with the ...

“Sauropods retain a digitigrade foot skeleton but the soft tissue pad makes their foot functionally plantigrade,” Jannel says. The paleontologists devised new tests to determine whether these foot ...

The heel-down posture of great apes, called plantigrade, is shared with other species that are less specialised for running, including bears, wolverines and some rodents. Although moving from ...