Hip illustration from Moodies, 1930 (IMAGE)

Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County

Hip illustration from Moodies, 1930

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​​The now-famous pelvis-in-mirror image from Moodie’s 1930 paper. Moodie along with paleontologists originally interpreted the specimen’s deformation to be the result of a traumatic injury instead of a developmental defect. Courtesy: La Brea Tar Pits.

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Courtesy: La Brea Tar Pits.

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