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: wallaby
- Part 4: brachiosaurid cervical
- Part 5: anaglyphs (red-and-cyan 3D images)
- Part 6: ostrich skull
- Fun with ostrich heads
- Veronica the ostrich head starts to come to pieces
- Fragments of ostrich skull
- Veronica the ostrich skull, laid bare
- Gloat your eyes, feast your soul, on my ostrich ethmoid ossification
- My dumb observation of the day is that in dorsal view, a partly-assembled ostrich skull looks kind of like a chasmosaurine
- Part 7: rhea neck
- Part 8: baby giraffe neck
- Part 9: bear skull
- Part 10: Ostrich neck
- Part 11: what half a gator looks like. Also: What half a horse head looks like
- Part 12: London’s mummified mouse
- Part 13: Behold, the SV-POW! mole!
- Part 14: sheep skull
- Part 15: My early Christmas present: a dead corn snake
- Part 16: cat skull
- Part 17: What is my mystery baby bird?
- Part 18: jar of wasps
- Part 19: buzzard
- Part 20: pheasant
- Part 21: Help me! How can I deflesh a tortoise?
- Part 22: badger (and fox):
- Happy Easter! I celebrated by decapitating a fox and a badger
- Defleshing a badger head: a pictorial guide
- Badgers are better than cats
- A fox, a badger, a pheasant and a monitor lizard walk into a bar …
- Here’s that badger-skull multiview you ordered
- My new badger skull (work in progress)
- Three skulls in three dimensions [including a sheep and a deer]
- Part 23: Hemisected skulls of a marten (Martes) and an opossum (Didelphis)
- Part 24: What half a pig head looks like
- Part 25: bird vertebrae
- Part 26: Here’s that pig-skull multiview you ordered
- Part 27: Christmas came late — in the form of a dead otter
- Part 28: Make a scale model Brachiosaurus humerus from chicken bones
- Part 29: Matt’s pig skull
- Intermission:
- Part 30: turkey skeleton
- Part 31: redneck CT-scan (hemisected turkey cervical)
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.
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