Sentences with phrase «leg bones known»

Clarke points out (1998) that not only has this fossil yielded the most complete australopithecine skull yet found, it has been found in association with the most complete set of foot and leg bones known so far, with more probably still to be extracted from the rock (and since then, the arm and hand has been discovered.)

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The site provides new information about the region's sauropods, which were previously known only from fragments of a tail bone, a leg bone, and a few bits of teeth — scraps so small that researchers couldn't assign the fossils to a particular species or even estimate its size.

Eusthenopteron (385 million years ago): Known from thousands of fossils, the lobe - finned fish's four meaty limbs have the same pattern of bones seen in the limbs of all tetrapods: a single bone nearest the body (your arm's humerus and your leg's femur), two bones farther out (your arm's radius and ulna and your leg's tibia and fibula).

However, in the evolution from dinosaurs to birds, it lost its lower end, and no longer connects to the ankle, being shorter than the other bone in the lower leg, the tibia.

By contrast, humans, who have a shorter pelvic bone called an ischium (informally known as a «sit bone»), can hyperextend their legs in a way that generates less force on the hamstrings at the knees.

«This is the world's oldest known broken bone from a four - legged animal — and it must have broken on land»

The discarded bone of a chicken leg, still etched with teeth marks from a dinner thousands of years ago, provides some of the oldest known physical evidence for the introduction of domesticated chickens to the continent of Africa, research from Washington University in St. Louis has confirmed.

But suppose we were scaled up to the size of the giant in Jack and the Beanstalk, our leg bones would no longer...

Using the dimensions of its leg bones and a formula that projected weight - carrying capacity, they estimated that the massive herbivore tipped the scales at about 59 metric tons, making it the heftiest dinosaur known from a relatively complete specimen.

GENE BANK Scientists extracted the oldest known hominid DNA from this 400,000 - year - old leg bone excavated in a Spanish cave.

A forty percent complete skeleton, many of her large bones had been preserved through fossilization and from these, and in particular the femur (thigh bone) and pelvis, we know she stood upright and moved about on two legs and it was claimed she walked in the same manner as humans today: a straight legged stride, knees extended, posture upright.

If an individual has arches that are collapsed inward, which is known as a valgus foot, this could cause the leg bones to rotate inwards in such a manner as to create increased curves in the lower back and upper back and promoting rounded shoulders.

I knew I was having a problem with my muscle and not my bones... some one told me that the reason my butt hurts is because one of my legs is shorter than the other and making me have scoliosis, I of course started panicking.

The femur bones have literally grown past the knee caps so he can no longer extend his hind legs or walk normally.»

Gosh, had I known that I was going to have emergency knee replacement surgery, I certainly would have informed them prior to purchasing trip insurance... REALLY??? I guess I shouldn't have booked any vacations with this travel insurance, since I had an emergency hysterectomy 6 years ago that led to the degeneration of my bones in my knees so bad that my legs were «bone on bone» when I was walking... guess that would be considered «pre-existing» to them as well, since that is what CAUSED the degeneration of the bone, osteoarthritis and a complete breakdown of the cartilage in my knees.

I wowed him with my software knowledge but he wasn't even slightly impressed that I knew the leg bone is connected to the thigh bone!»