Morphology is the architecture of life. The ingenuity of form and function.....breathtaking through tattered remains. I prepare skeletons for study, draw things and take pictures. KairoAnatomica@gmail.com

Anonymous asked: I'm glad you're still around. I miss the dissection posts you used to do. I actually still do dissections. They just look like this now. The old gory stuff was fun. I learned a lot….. I’ve started to learn to present it better.

I shared this on instagram but forgot to post it here.

Here’s some skeletons I built from 2015-2017





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I don’t remember if I posted this here….. I had to go to the dentist last week and was reminded of this post. Dentists are really just marriage counselors…



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Not feeling my best today…. here’s a fish I dissected a few days ago.



It’s really neat how the muscle blocks are directly visible on the surface of the skin. Fish are robots.





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I’ve not had time to write a post in a while. This post is probably somewhat confusing.



But this discovery is so goddamn neat. We’ve just scratched the surface on something remarkable and I have so many questions.



Here’s the study: https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2020/06/17/2004805117



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Anonymous asked: Hi, I was wondering if you would be able to provide the source for where you get your information on skull asymmetry based on what side the animal chews with? I need it for my own research, and I would really appreciate it. Thank you. There’s no single definitive paper on this.

Instead, the functional morphology of mastication and dentition is a vast area of study with over fifteen thousand papers on animals, humans, and from a medical, veterinary, morphological, paleontological, functional, biomechanical, anthropological, etc perspective.

I dont know the scope of your research, but take a look at the existing papers and you can narrow it down to a specific species, or effects on a specific tooth, or a muscle….etc.

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&as_vis=1&q=skull+morphology+mastication+asymmetry+&btnG=

I’ve always found the lifecycle in aliens to be really cool, and I wish it was used in fiction more.



The real life variations that plants take with their multiple adult forms should be explored more in fictional creatures.



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Collaboration with ForensicsWorld

This is one of their cases. Yes, they caught the guy.



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Every encounter leaves a mark.



It’s possible that all this happened after he died, the dolphins could have been playing with his floating body and the shark might have been interested in scavenging.



It’s hard for me to tell if the marks happened after death here… hopefully some experts can chime in.



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My clearing and staining work from 2015-2019



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