Publicado in Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week

Remember I picked up those three sheep skulls (and some other bones, including a complete neck) from a shallow pit in a field near where we live? Here is first of the skulls, cleaned up and photographed in orthogonal views. It’s interesting to compare it to the pig skull from way back: Sheep and pigs are both perfectly well-behaved artiodactyls, but their skulls are dramatically different.