The Cellar - Feb 13, 2010: Dem Bones

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xoxoxoBruce

02-13-2010 12:31 AM

Feb 13, 2010: Dem Bones

Snakes are the ultimate in flexibility, all wiggly and squirmy, like a big worm.
It's easy to forget they actually have a skeleton... bones, lots of bones.

http://cellar.org/2010/snakebones.jpg

Phenomenica has a lot of pictures of snake skeletons. The text goes something like;

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The precaudal vertebrae have a more or less high neural spine which, as a rare exception (Xenopholis), may be expanded and plate-like above, and short or moderately long transverse processes to which the ribs are attached by a single facet. The centra of the anterior vertebrae emit more or less developed descending processes, or haemapophyses, which are sometimes continued throughout (Fig. II, A), as in Tropidonotus, Vipera, and Ancistrodon, among European genera.

but the pictures are very cool. :D

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SPUCK

02-13-2010 05:04 AM

Ow, I broke a rib!

Sheldonrs

02-13-2010 02:24 PM

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richlevy

02-13-2010 03:14 PM

Well, I thought it was pretty creepy, but I guess it's better viewing snake ribs from the outside than from the inside.

BTW, thanks for that site. I'd like to nominate this http://www.phenomenica.com/2010/02/w...rent-head.html for a future Image of the Day. Cool fish. It's too bad it hangs out at 2000 feet. It would look fantastic in an aquarium.

hipshot

02-13-2010 08:12 PM

Very Cool Link, Rich!:thumb:

squirell nutkin

02-13-2010 09:15 PM

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Gravdigr

02-15-2010 07:47 AM

Ribbed, for her pleasure.:cool:

Sheldonrs

02-15-2010 07:59 AM

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Originally Posted by Gravdigr (Post 634741)

Ribbed, for her pleasure.:cool:

So that's not a rattle, it's a reservoir tip?

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