The SVP 2024 abstract book dropped earlier this week. You can download it here.

[This post received first place in the 2024 Blog Extravaganza at Adam Mastroianni’s Experimental History. Many thanks, Adam!] I first had this thought in 2019, and I started this draft in early 2020, but…you know how that particular story turned out. I’m picking it back up again now because I’ve had the titular point reinforced on several trips and projects over the past couple of years.

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If you’ve been here for very long you know I have a bit of a neural canal fixation.

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I’m scrambling to get everything done before I leave for England and SVPCA this weekend, so no time for a substantive post. Instead, some goodies from old papers I’ve been reading. Explanations will have to come in the comments, if at all.

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This is a caudal vertebra from the middle of the tail of an ostrich, LACM Bj342: {.aligncenter .size-full .wp-image-8259 loading=“lazy” attachment-id=“8259” permalink=“http://svpow.com/2013/04/10/crazy-pneumatic-ostrich-caudal/ostrich-caudal-composite-2/” orig-file=“https://svpow.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/ostrich-caudal-composite1.jpeg” orig-size=“4338,3469” comments-opened=“1”