comprised of 28 bones and 30 joints. The tendons, ligaments, and muscles in the feet number more than 100. Believe it or not, the feet absorb more than 100,000 pounds of pressure during one mile ofwalking. The foot is so intricate and capable of precise movements that ...
presence of an external fundamental system in the cortices of the long bones I’ll discuss each one in turn. (Please let me know in the comments if I’ve missed any.) These vertebrae are rather dissimilar in size and form. Click through to find out why. 1. Size alone is pretty useles...
buoyed in large part by the fact that I stumbled backwards into a situation where I had access to a big collection of sauropod bones (at the OMNH), free time on a CT scanner (at the university hospital), and a curious and collaborative radiologist (Kent Sanders). But you don’t ...
The knee of the horse is made of several small bones. Although it is called the knee and bends forward like a human knee it is different in structure to a human knee. A human’s knee joint is a hinge joint. A horse’s knee is several bones held together by small muscles, tendons, ...
is a chronic problem with the bones that causes inflammation to the tendons and sesamoids. Often the pain gets worse when there is increased pressure on the bone. Usually the pain that’s associated with this injury is dull and mild although it can be an annoyance that gets worse over ...
It’s also notoriously difficult to photograph: too big to fit into a single photo, and with poor contrast between the bones and matrix. This is the best picture I’ve found of part of it (fromhere) … … although this one (fromhere) conveys the scale better: ...
some publishable observations along the way. She has a chance to do something that I think is rather rare for a sauropod paleobiologist, which is to get a firm, dissection-based grounding in bird and croc anatomybeforeshe first sets foot in a museum collection to play with sauropod bones....
two sets of eyes will see a lot more. (If you have the freedom to choose, ideally you might want one fairly big and strong person to manhandle the bones [safely, for the sake of the bones and the humans], and one fairly slim and flexible person to scramble up ladders and fit into...
First there is no evidence to suggest that all the sauropod bones in the site pertain to the same taxon. The Holotype ilium (cute as a bugs ear, I must say, particularly before the shim went through the middle of it, when we flipped the scapula jacket), comes from a much smaller ani...