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 ...

A pelvic fracture is a break in one or more of the bones in the pelvis. This includes the sacrum, coccyx, ilium, ischium, and pubis. The type of pelvic fracture a person has may depend on the trauma ...

Scientists studying the earliest mammals have been stumped for centuries about the function of two pelvic bones found in the fossil record that most mammals don't have today. A study published in this ...

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 ...

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 ...

The discovery of what appeared to be a human femur and pelvic bone might have unnerved the construction workers who unearthed ...

Seattle Mariners manager Lloyd McClendon said after the game last night that Nelson Cruz exited the game with an injury to his pelvic bone. Originally it was thought to be his hamstring, but nope. Get ...