University of Bristol

Mike Taylor

Ray Wilhite [posted this gorgeous image on a Facebook
thread](https://www.facebook.com/mathew.wedel/posts/10219152985676267?comment_id=10219154322309682&comment_tracking=%7B%22tn%22%3A%22R%22%7D),
and we're re-posting it here with [his
permission](https://www.facebook.com/mathew.wedel/posts/10219152985676267?comment_id=10219154322309682&reply_comment_id=10219154353710467&comment_tracking=%7B%22tn%22%3A%22R%2314%22%7D).

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It's taken from a poster that Ray co-authored (Roberts et al. 2016).
We're looking here at a coronal cross-section of a hen (age not
specified), with anterior to the left. Latex has been injected into the
air sacs and lungs, highlighting them in shocking pink.

FInding your way around: the big yellow blobs near the middle are
vitelline follicles. Just to their left, the two rounded red triangles
that look like networks are the lungs. All the rest of the pink is
diverticula and air-sacs: the interclavicle air-sac to the left, the
caudal thoracic air-sac right behind the left (lower) lung, and
abdominal air-sacs running backwards from the tips of the lungs. The big
white oval is a calcified egg.

More from this poster in a subsequent post!

# References

- Roberts, John, Ray Wilhite, Gregory Almond, Wallace D Berry, Tami
  Kelly, Terry Slaten, Laurie McCall and Drury R. Reavill. 2016. Gross
  and histologic diagnosis of retrograde yolk inhalation in poultry. The
  American Association of Avian Pathologists, San Antonio, Texas.
  doi:10.13140/RG.2.2.28204.26246

 


Ray Wilhite posted this gorgeous image on a Facebook thread, and we’re re-posting it here with his permission.

Here’s that hemisected hen you ordered

Western University of Health Sciences

Matt Wedel

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[Exploded turtle
skulls](https://svpow.com/2018/04/29/exploded-turtles-of-the-academy-of-natural-sciences/)
are cool, but what about exploding the entire turtle? ([Not that
way.](https://svpow.com/2017/06/08/sauropods-stomping-turtles-a-much-neglected-theme-in-palaeo-art/))
Folks at the Naturhistorisches Museum Wien roll *hard*. Or did -- I
assume these exhibits are old. Thankfully no museum studies doofus has
insisted they be taken down and replaced with an interactive 3D display
on what it feels like to be a sea turtle. Kudos to the current
management for keeping the natural history museum filled with natural
history.

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I didn't get back far enough from them to photograph all of the labels,
mostly because I had like 90 minutes to jet through roughly 13,792 halls
of amazing things. But this one is a loggerhead, *Caretta caretta*.
Identifying the others is left as an exercise for the reader.

Or better yet, [make your
own](https://svpow.com/things-to-make-and-do/), if you can [procure a
dead
turtle](https://svpow.com/2016/03/22/help-me-how-can-i-deflesh-a-tortoise/).


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Exploded turtles of the Naturhistorisches Museum Wien

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Saw this gem back in the herpetology collections at the Academy of
Natural Sciences in Philadelphia and thought, "Someone up and Beauchened
a turtle head." (My inner monologue is a tennis match between an arch
language pedant and an unreconstructed hick with a penchant for folksy
archaisms.)

What a sweet mount -- there should be one of these for every critter in
the museum. There should be a Hall of Exploded Skulls, and a Curator of
Exploded Skulls. Would that be too much, or not enough? Both hypotheses
remain untested. Someone should fix that.

Many, many thanks to Ted Daeschler for showing me all the awesome stuff
at the Academy of Natural Sciences -- or, if not *all*, as much as we
could cram into two hours.


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