One of the body parts declining in size was a lower leg bone called the tarsus.

其中一个尺寸缩小的身体部位是被称为跗骨的小腿骨。

" Furthermore, each leg of mine has seven sections—the coxa, the trochanter, the femur, the patella, the tibia, the metatarsus, and the tarsus" .

" 此外，我的每条腿都由七节骨头构成——髋骨，坐骨，大腿骨，膝盖骨，胫骨，跗骨，蹠骨。"

And when they lined up the tarsus measurements with summer temperature records… Changes in temperature were followed one year later by a change in leg size.

当他们将跗骨的测量数据与夏季温度记录相匹配时… … 便发现一年后，温度的变化会导致其腿的尺寸发生变化。