Assuming the scale bar is supposed to be 1 meter (and not 20 meters or 2.0 meters as it is labeled) yields a summed cervical length of 13.4 meters, a summed dorsal length of 3.39 meters, and a cervical/dorsal ratio of 3.96–all admirably close, off by no more than 4cm across 16+...
4. Use publicly-available CT data.Okay, admittedly there’s probably not enough of this out there yet to use on anything other than birds (or mammals, if you’re into sinuses), but hey, we need bird studies, too. Bird studies hit twice — first because birds are interesting objects of...
In mammals the space between the dura mater and the bony walls of the neural arch is filled with epidural fat. This isn’t unhealthy fat, this is fat used as packing peanuts — the lightest, cheapest thing the body can build. (We’re a fat-0bsessed culture so it may sound weird to...