The dinosaur hip is primarily divided into three parts. There is the ilium (the large, upper flange of the hips), the ischium (a smaller spine that runs below and behind) and the pubis (another ...

Dinosaur skeletons outline where their reproductive organs would have been. All dinosaurs had hips made up of three major bones—the blade-like ilium on top, with the pubis and ischium underneath ...

Here, a composite reconstruction of the dinosaur Laquintasaura venezuelae ... an ankle bone (e); left ischium, or part of the hip bone (f); left femur (g and h). A section of the small tibia ...

This ischium has a distinct characteristic that has not been seen in other ankylosaurids—one that allows more muscles to be attached. This likely provided the dinosaur with increased power in ...

Over at Dinosaur Tracking, Brian Switek has a great ... shear vertically through food), a curved part of the hip called the ischium, and other characteristics underlined a close relationship ...

Here we describe the first articulated dinosaur skeleton from Tunisia and ... pelvic pneumatization—including the first report of an ischial pneumatic foramen among Dinosauria—strongly ...

A heterodontosaurid dinosaur distinguishable from other species ... straight humerus has a prominent deltopectoral crest. The ischium is straight, compressed mediolaterally, and does not possess ...

the University of Bologna and the Office National des Mines in Tunis found the most complete remains of a dinosaur yet found in northern Africa. A large opening found in the ischium, which opens into ...

One issue was that the ischium seems to be a completely new structure in tetrapods and transitional fossils such as the ancient fish Panderichthys. Existing around 380 million years ago ...