The drawing is from “An atlas of anatomical plates of the human body” by Frederic J. Mouat, (1849). 8. Skull Drawing from Practical Human Anatomy This labeled anatomical drawing is from “Practical Human Anat
I first became aware of this specimen a few years ago, when the distal end of the right femur was temporarily on display at the Field House. There’s a big bony prominence just proximal to the medial femoral condyle, right where we’d expect the medial head of the gastrocnemius to origin...
When I started my palaeo Masters (as it then was) at Portsmouth, I had a very bad habit of writing unnecessary double negatives of the kind the Sir Humphrey Appleby might use. Instead of saying “Taxon X resembles taxon Y”, I would say “is not dissimilar to”. I did this all the ...
I first became aware of this specimen a few years ago, when the distal end of the right femur was temporarily on display at the Field House. There’s a big bony prominence just proximal to the medial femoral condyle, right where we’d expect the medial head of the gastrocnemius to origin...
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+...
At the bottom of the image I labeledsegmental musclesandintermuscular septum. You’ve seen these before, although you may not have known it: they make the zig-zag patterns in the meat of fishes, where we call the segmental musclesmyomeres(“muscle parts”) and each intermuscular septum amyo...
(1999: fig. 3) figured and labeled the epipophysis in one of the cervical vertebrae. The vertebra image in that figure is tiny (nice work, glam-magz!), so here are some sketches ofJobariamid-cervicals (from two different individuals) that I made back in the day when I was doing ...
And the same thing labeled: And now flipped around so we can see it in medial view: And now that image labeled: And, hey, there are three of our alternative hypotheses on display: the long (many vertebral segments) lumbosacral expansion of the spinal cord, which is reflected in a gradual...