and that the air sacs had something to do with it, and that the bird lungs are set up as a series of tubes instead of a big array of little sacs, like ours, but the airflow patterns had not been worked out. Then in a series of nifty experiments...
Over on the ‘Human anatomy study materials‘ sidebar page, you’ll find a bunch of “color your own skull” images, which I extracted from the 1917 public-domain Gray’s Anatomy and posted for students so they can draw on top of them. The drawings are useful but a real(ish) 3D skul...
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, ...
The CT scans of Tutankhamun found a cleft palate and fairly long head, as well as a curved spine and fusion of the upper vertebrae, which are conditions associated with Marfan’s syndrome. But DNA tests in 2010 proved negative for that diagnosis. The Chariot Crash Theory In 2014, producers...
SV-POW! ... All sauropod vertebrae, except when we're talking about Open Access. ISSN 3033-3695
You need a tractable way to get started, to organize the things you’re learning, and to create a little structure for yourself. My recommendation: do a little project, with the emphasis onlittle. Anyone can do this, in any area of human activity. Maybe your project will be creating a ...
SV-POW! … All sauropod vertebrae, except when we're talking about Open Access. ISSN 3033-3695 All the SV-POW! videos, and other stuff on the sidebar June 25, 2024 BYU 11505, a caudal vertebra of a diplodocid from Dry Mesa, in posteroventral view. Note the paired pneumatic foramina ...
Here’s one of the free caudal vertebrae of an ostrich,Struthio camelus, LACM Ornithology Bj342. It’s a bit asymmetric–the two halves of the neural spine are aimed in slightly different directions, and one transverse process is angled just slightly differently than the other–but the asymmetr...
An otter is a rare find, and I have no expectation of ever acquiring another one — unlike foxes and badgers, which crop up maybe once a year or so on average. So I hope I can make the time to treat this with the reverence it deserves, and extract the whole skeleton (as I did ...
Here’s a stupid thing: roughly 2-3 times a year I go to the field or to a museum and get hundreds of SV-POW!-able photos. Then I get back to the world and catch up on all of the work that piled up while I was away. And by the time I’m done with that, whatever motivati...