We like to keep you busy with arts-and-crafts projects:)
- Part 1: pig skull
- Part 2: four complete, articulated, extant sauropod skeletons — yes, really!
- Part 3: butchering a wallaby
- Part 3b: wallaby feet
- Part 3c (out of order): Wallaby skull update
- Part 4: brachiosaurid cervical
- Part 5: anaglyphs (red-and-cyan 3D images)
- Part 6: fun with ostrich heads
- Part 6b: Veronica the ostrich head starts to come to pieces
- Part 6c: fragments of ostrich skull
- Part 6d: Veronica the ostrich skull, laid bare
- Part 6e: gloat your eyes, feast your soul, on my ostrich ethmoid ossification
- Part 6f: my dumb observation of the day is that in dorsal view, a partly-assembled ostrich skull looks kind of like a chasmosaurine
- Part 7: fun with rhea necks
- Part 8: baby giraffe neck. Also: cartilage accounts for a fifth of the length and how to dissect a neck.
- Part 7b: more fun with rhea necks (out of order). See also: Things to dissect and see: longus colli dorsalis
- Part 9: bear skull, or, VIG’s first dig
- Part 9b: the right to arm bears
- Part 10: ostrich cervical diverticula
- Part 10b: more fun with ostrich necks
- Part 11: what half a gator looks like. Also: What half a horse head looks like
For some reason, these posts always make the think of a fictional book entitled Things a Boy Can Do that crops up in one of Richmal Crompton’ Just William stories.
July 2, 2010 at 5:04 pm
[...] realise that SV-POW! has been heavy on these extant-animal-skeleton posts recently, and correspondingly light on actual, you know, sauropod vertebrae. I hope no-one feels [...]
December 13, 2010 at 5:25 am
[...] * Without harshing on anyone, I suspect that a lot of consumers of paleo-art have spent more time looking at dinosaur skeletons than looking at live animals and thinking about how much or little of their skeletal structure is visible in life, which may make them susceptible to mistaking “shows a lot of the bony structure” for “biologically realistic”. I suspect that because it was true of me for a good chunk of my life; as usual, the one ranting is ranting mostly at his former self. What cured me was dissecting animals and reading TetZoo–happily, two avenues of self-improvement that are open to everyone. [...]
March 2, 2012 at 11:47 am
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