Unknown CT slice
Such deep dark secrets you hold
Hiding in grayscale
(answer now posted in the comments– check out the CRAZY pathology on the left jaw joint though!)
Some comparisons: first a pathological animal, then a non-pathological one. Ignore the bad segmentation job I’ve done around the eyes (thin bone region) and other areas– focus on the jaw. Also, the lack of ossicones is an age/gender issue, not pathology! The jaw arthrosis (fusion of joint; probably infection involved) is clearest in the preview image or if you pause the video at a half revolution.
Pathological left jaw (bone has grown around temporomandibular joint)
More normal jaw (and lack of ossicones/horns; probably a female since the rest of the skull is fairly mature)
I’m not a haikuist,
But that certainly looks…
Pachydermal.
From David via email (comment posting blocked, oddly!):
Behold unashamed
elephant haunch proclaimed
Berty’s thighs are famed!
Are you sure?
Elephant it may be, but…
Probably anterior.
Interesting slide
looks somewhat mammalian
I want to say… horse?
Giraffa maybe
the skull in a cross section
isolated horns
broad atlas supports
head of large ruminantia
camel or giraffe
I’m with Mallison
Deep mandibles, big ass brain,
Ossicones above
Keep trying your best
But look carefully, are there
Devilish details?
Pretty bird, pretty
bird .. oh wait no, I do think:
rather, caprine, wot?
right on the jaw joint
this section is located
few have horns on top
:confused:
Teeth, not ossicones
Wrapped above the cranium?
A Babirusa?
Is that a big mandible
And an atlas, giant brain?
Horns too. Is it a giraffe?
Your blog made Weird Earl’s Archive of Web Curiosities on the Straight Dope website! http://www.straightdope.com/weirdearls/
Yay! The blog does seem to fit that archive snugly…
Next time, can we please
Return to meat amputees
For us non-CTs?
😉
Haha sure Mark, too many of my photos just have leg muscles with labels and I’ve covered a lot of the diversity of animals I have dissections of, but I’m sure I’ll find something for the non-CTers in a Mystery Dissection soon.
Thanks! I have enjoyed whatever you’ve put up and the variety is good. It’s just that with the gross anatomy I’m merely out of my depth whilst with the scans I feel that I can’t even get in the water.
Tonight brings answers
To all your CT questions
Last guess for glory?
Many close answers
Missed jaw joint pathology
Of this okapi
Now I race to flee
The vengeful Freezerinos
For my pendantry
is jaw joint damage
thus supposed to tell us
okapi genus?
Smile, giraffe guessers
Well done, but the game is to
Solve all mysteries
CT videos posted above, for some extra anatomy fun.
If okapis were extinct and those two skulls were found as fossils, they would almost certainly have been named as different genera and, even today, might still be considered to be separate species.
The non-pathological one looks more slender and elongate and with a relatively larger orbit so I’d be guessing that it’s a female and sub-adult.
If you are at all keen on Okapis ( and who couldn’t be?) the ones at the Zoo don’t seem to mind grazing right by the fences, giving a wonderful opportunity to see them up close.