Feb 13, 2010: Dem Bones

xoxoxoBruce · 02-13-2010, 12:31 AM

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.

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.

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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!

squirell nutkin · 02-13-2010, 09:15 PM

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Gravdigr · 02-15-2010, 07:47 AM

Ribbed, for her pleasure.

Sheldonrs · 02-15-2010, 07:59 AM

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Originally Posted by Gravdigr

Ribbed, for her pleasure.

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

02-13-2010, 02:24 PM	#3
Sheldonrs Master Dwellar Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Los Angeles, CA Posts: 4,412	Mmmmmmmmmmm...Baby Diamondback ribs. __________________ Laugh and the world laughs with you; cry and the world laughs AT you.

02-13-2010, 03:14 PM	#4
richlevy King Of Wishful Thinking Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Philadelphia Suburbs Posts: 6,669	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. __________________ Exercise your rights and remember your obligations - VOTE! I have always believed that hope is that stubborn thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us so long as we have the courage to keep reaching, to keep working, to keep fighting. -- Barack Hussein Obama

02-13-2010, 08:12 PM	#5
hipshot Enlarged to show texture Join Date: Dec 2006 Posts: 80	Very Cool Link, Rich! __________________ "When I die, I want to go peacefully in my sleep like my grandfather. Not screaming in terror like the passengers in his car."

02-15-2010, 07:47 AM	#7
Gravdigr The Un-Tuckian Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: South Central...KY that is Posts: 39,517	Ribbed, for her pleasure. __________________ These statements have not been evaluated by the FDA, EPA, FBI, DEA, CDC, or FDIC. These statements are not intended to diagnose, cause, treat, cure, or prevent any disease. If you feel you have been harmed/offended by, or, disagree with any of the above statements or images, please feel free to fuck right off.

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SPUCK Professor Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 1,911	Ow, I broke a rib!

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