In dolphins and whales, the pelvis is widely considered to be a good-for-nothing remnant of legged days past. But that pelvic bone didn't become useless when the animals switched from walking to ...

LOS ANGELES, Sept. 9 (UPI) --Because pelvic bones are vital for walking, but unnecessary for swimming, scientists have long dismissed the isolated pelvic bones of whales and dolphins as a useless ...

Sept. 18 (UPI) --An ancient ape pelvis recovered in Hungary suggests bipedalism has deeper evolutionary roots than previously thought. The 10-million-year-old fossilized pelvis bone belongs to ...

All vertebrate species have a pelvis, but only humans use it for upright, two-legged walking. The evolution of the human pelvis, and our two-legged gait, dates back five million years, but the precise ...

Camille Berthelot is in the Department of Genomes and Genetics, the Pasteur Institute, Paris Cité University, CNRS UMR 3525, INSERM UA12, F-75015 Paris, France. Using an exceptionally rare collection ...

A piece of an ancient pelvis bone that had been tucked away in museum storage might belong to the English King Alfred the Great or his son Edward, scholars announced Friday (Jan. 17). Archaeologists ...

Historians and archaeologists have argued for generations about just where the bones of kindly St. Nicholas—the Christian Saint on which the legend of Santa Claus is based—are buried. Turkey, Italy ...