Today, we were at the BYU Museum of Paleontology, which is in a ridiculously scenic setting with snow-capped mountains on the horizon in almost every direction.
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A while back, we noted that seriously, Apatosaurus is just nuts, as proven by the illustrations in Ostrom and McIntosh (1966: plate 12). Now I’m posting those illustrations again, in a modified form, to make the same point.
The longest cell in Andy Farke is one of the primary afferent (sensory) neurons responsible for sensing vibration or fine touch, which runs from the tip of his big toe to his brainstem.
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According to Rare Historical Photos from the 1860s to the 1960s, this is the iceberg that sank the Titanic: {.size-full .wp-image-11501 aria-describedby=“caption-attachment-11501” loading=“lazy” attachment-id=“11501” permalink=“http://svpow.com/2015/02/13/the-titanic-was-sunk-by-an-apatosaurus-cervical/rare-historical-photos-16/” orig-file=“https://svpow.files.wordpress.com/2015/02/rare-historical-photos-16.jpg” orig-size=“1308,740”
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Christine Argot of the MNHN, Paris, drew our attention to this wonderful old photo (from here, original caption reproduced below): [{.size-full .wp-image-9874 aria-describedby=“caption-attachment-9874” loading=“lazy” attachment-id=“9874” permalink=“http://svpow.com/2014/03/01/the-case-of-the-bandy-legged-diplodocus/1-7_diplodocus_2_l/” orig-file=“https://svpow.files.wordpress.com/2014/02/1-7_diplodocus_2_l.jpg” orig-size=“2362,1772”