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Freezermas Day 7: Mystery Dissection 14 (One photo of two things)

Posted in Mystery Anatomy Posts (all), Mystery Dissection, tagged , , , , on February 15, 2014| 14 Comments »

I Can’t Remember Freezermas… Can’t Tell Dissection from a CT. Deep down Inside I Feel to Freeze. These Wonderful Scenes of Anatomy! Now That the Week Is Through with Me, I’m Waking up; Ratites I see And There’s Not Much Left of These: Nothing remains but bones now (digested from Metallica’s “One“, in …And Justice […]

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Freezermas Day 6: Ostrichation: Mindblown (Anarchy-Xray)

Posted in Exalting Archosauria, Freezermas, tagged , , , on February 14, 2014| 12 Comments »

And I post my blog and stare Into x-rays of an ostrich I’ve always known that radiographs never lie People always say “that’s cool” To see x-rays of an ostrich So keen to know what Lies behind the skin (evolved from “Eyes of A Stranger” by Queensrÿche, from the epic masterpiece of Operation: Mindcrime (1988). […]

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Freezermas Day 5: Pigs’ Feet (Three Wonky Ones)

Posted in Freezermas, Frozen Mammals, When Anatomy Goes Bad, tagged , , , , on February 13, 2014| 6 Comments »

Sick feet, pig feet, boo hoo, in pain you are Not well heeled; fate sealed, oh no, inflamed they are And when your trotter’s on the floor You’re nearly a good boar Almost a porker (corrupted from Pink Floyd’s “Pigs (Three Different Ones)” track #3 from the Animals concept album (1977). A song with quite […]

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Freezermas Day 4: DARWIN DAY- Quadrupedopheniaphilia (Trim My Hooves)

Posted in Freezermas, Frozen Mammals, When Anatomy Goes Bad, tagged , , , , on February 12, 2014| 5 Comments »

Why should you care If you have to trim my hooves? I’ve got to move with good feet Or be put down fast. I know I should trot But my old vet she cares a lot. And I’m still living on stone Even though these feet won’t last. (mutated from The Who, “Cut My Hair“, […]

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Freezermas Day 3: To the Five Felids

Posted in Freezermas, Frozen Mammals, tagged , , , , , on February 11, 2014| 15 Comments »

Freezermas continues with track 3 of our rockin’ anatomy concept album! The number of the beast today is 5 (five days to go in Freezermas!), and I will deviate from the rock/metal theme to embrace the other side of the tracks: hip hop and rap. The Beastie Boys and I go way back: their “Licensed […]

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Freezermas Day 2: Opening the Ostrich (Postmortem)

Posted in Exalting Archosauria, Freezermas, tagged , , , , , , on February 10, 2014| 15 Comments »

Freezermas continues! Today we have a treat for you. Lots of detailed anatomy! This post comes from my team’s dissections of an ostrich last week (~3-7 February 2014), which I’ve been tweeting about as part of a larger project called the Open Ostrich. However, before I go further, it’s as important as ever to note […]

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Freezermas Day 1: Mystery CT Slice 11

Posted in Freezermas, Mystery Anatomy Posts (all), Mystery CT, tagged , , on February 9, 2014| 20 Comments »

Seven dead old limbs Seven science wins Seven icy forms beheld And our trip begins Seven anat’my jokes Seven bloody posts Seven are our sci-comm fires Seven frozen choirs… (props to Iron Maiden’s “Moonchild” opening lyrics, from the iconic “Seventh Son of a Seventh Son” concept album, of lofty, epic, frozen, anatomy-bearing motifs) So we […]

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On the Seventh (and Final) Day of Freezermas, this blog gave to thee…

Posted in Freezermas, Mystery Anatomy Posts (all), Mystery Museum Specimen, tagged , , , on February 17, 2013| 22 Comments »

…a daily picture of anatomy! And today the pictures are a mysteryyyyyyy! ♫ Welcome back again, again, and again (gasp, pant)– and again (exhausted howl)… and… aaaaaagaiiiiin… to Freezermas!  This is the end. I’ve worked hard all week to bring you all-new content for Freezermas, and on the Seventh Day I get drunk rest— and make you do the work! Off into the hoary wilderness […]

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On the Sixth Day of Freezermas, this blog gave to thee…

Posted in Frozen Mammals, tagged , , on February 16, 2013| 25 Comments »

…a daily picture of anatomy! And today it is six picture-facts; doo-raa-dee! ♫ Welcome back again, again, and again (gasp, pant)— and again (exhausted howl) to Freezermas!  And Happy World Pangolin Day! Stomach-Churning Rating: 4/10; pretty tame images of anatomy today– but 9/10 if you consider how vile a practice it is to eat pangolins. Much like rhinoceroses are, pangolins (“scaly anteaters”) are threatened […]

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On the Fifth Day of Freezermas, this blog gave to thee…

Posted in Anatomy Vignette, Freezermas, Two-Dog-Night Tetrapods, tagged , , , , , , on February 15, 2013| 7 Comments »

…a daily picture of anatomy! And today it is five pictures; zza-zza-zee! ♫ Welcome back again, again, (gasp, pant) and again to Freezermas!  I’m letting the dogs out today. Science gone barking mad! Hopefully my puns will not screw the pooch. Stomach-Churning Rating: 4/10; a dog cadaver’s leg (not messy), then just tame digital images of anatomy. I am working with […]

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