Anatomy

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No wings, no keel: How the bird sternun reveal the loss of flight

Flightless birds show a deterministic reduction in keel size and sternum curvature as body mass increases. When birds give up flight, they don’t...

Coelacanth
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We were wrong! Coelacanth is reshaping our evolutionary story

For decades, the African coelacanth (Latimeria chalumnae) has been hailed as a “living fossil,” a rare window into the deep evolutionary past of...

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Meninges, the protector of brain

The function of the meninges is to cover and protect the brain. It also encloses and protects the vessels that supply the brain....

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Morphology of Limulus

Horseshoe crabs live primarily in and around shallow coastal waters on soft sandy or muddy bottoms. They occasionally come onto shore to mate. Horseshoe...

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Anatomy of a Spider

A beautiful image showing the internal anatomy of a spider. A spider's body is divided into two regions, Prosoma, anterior part and Ophisthosoma,...

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Infographic Guide to skeletons

Infographic showing the skeletons to body size of few animals.

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This ancient bird hatchling preserved in amber provides insights into early bird evolution

Scientists have recently made an incredible discovery of a piece of amber that contained well preserved remains of an alomost complete bird hatchling....

Anatomy

This deer was shot several years prior and when they dressed it out they found this!

Take a close look at this, absolutely amazing! This deer was shot with an arrow years ago. Lucky, the shot was not fatal,...