Lmao Tumblr strikes again, like there are no super sexy females out there or something
tumblr didnt ‘strike again’ til your perverted ass started sharing random pictures of women you find sexy, but thanks for reminding me skinny women with breasts exist. here’s their skeletal framework:
weird! not a single snaking spine in sight! their busts dont jut skyward! their hips are perpendicular to the ground, they can somehow miraculously be drawn without looking like your cumrag in waiting!!!
Love how this weird dude tried to drag feminism by admitting he thinks hitler cosplay is super sexy
Here’s something spooky for today! The skeleton of an American toad [Anaxyrus americanus] articulated and on display at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History in DC. The bony projections along the chest are not actually ribs, and in fact, most frogs lack ribs or a diaphragm at all. The shape and weight of ribs against the chest can be a dangerous trait for animals that move by hopping. If they fail to land on their front feet they could easily break their ribs. Therefore most frogs have evolved to not have ribs, while simultaneously improving the mechanisms that allow them to land safely on their front feet after a jump. Image by Flickr user
I love the sphenoid complex. It’s gorgeous. It looks so much like a tattered but unbroken moth.
Your sphenoidal sinuses are deep within your skull, behind the olfactory bulb and olfactory sensors in the very back of your nose. They sit around the pterygoid wings of the sphenoid bone, and the upper wall of the sinuses is the upper wings of the bone. These wings are the last bone structure before the brain, and though they’re strong, they’re thin and brittle, and can easily be damaged or destroyed by tumorous growths and head injuries.
Serious sinusitis before antibiotics could become deep-seated (it is usually treated before this happens these days), and if there are any cracks in the pterygoid wings, easily invade the brain cavity. Because of this and related reasons, bacterial meningitis and encephalitis (more serious and higher risk of complications) was at one time much more common than viral meningitis around the world, as it still is in developing countries. The mortality rate was about 10-15%, but many times even people with resolved infections ended up with hearing loss, brain damage, and in children, learning disabilities.
That said, the most important things are that the sphenoid complex seats the pituitary gland, provides support for the optic and the olfactory nerves, and a boundary between the open sinuses (prone to infection) and the brain structures. It prevents transmission of bacteria to the brain, and it provides a stable platform for the nerves that allow us to both see and smell the world around us.
The humble frog has been hiding a secret – like most birds, mammals, and a handful of reptiles, it has a kneecap.
This newly discovered piece of amphibian anatomy is barely a tiny blob of squishy cartilage, so nothing fancy, but the discovery could roll back our best guess on when kneecaps evolved.
A small team of Argentinian researchers were inspired by relatively recent discoveries of structures called sesamoids in species thought to be lacking in bony joint covers.
Sesamoids are bony material embedded in connective tissue such as the tendons over a joint. Knee caps, in other words.
They analysed the skeletons of 20 species of frog and found rudimentary structures that weren’t quite sesamoids, but weren’t like the surrounding connective tissue.
I never wondered what they looked like before. Wow. I literally just gasped. How neat!
Which is another reason you shouldn’t pick them up by their top shell
Everyone knows that you shouldn’t pick up a tortoise or turtle by their shell since their backbone is fused with it, but often it’s not really an easy thing to visualize how that works. Here’s a really cool image for that…
Almost NOBODY knows this, because people don’t bother to simply show you a fucking image like this in school so before i saw this on tumblr i thought a turtle was simply a loose animal in a shell like a snail
Urocyon's Jaunts 2.0 
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