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A while back, I posted about a squirrel mandible that I’d acquired, and how ridiculously huge its incisor was.

Hi folks, Matt here. This is a ridiculously busy week for me, for reasons that will become clear by the end of the post, so I’m bundling some news items.

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Our friends Tim and Michelle Williams moved into a local house a few months ago. In the garage, they found a jam jar containing the bones of a squirrel and the remains of its rotting flesh, dated 1985: presumably a zoologist lived in that house 28 years ago, began preparing a specimen, and moved out before finishing.

One of our anatomy students this year, Tess MacFife, was inspired by the other Dr. Wedel’s skull lecture and produced this excellent anatomy-inspired jack-o-lantern: {.aligncenter .size-full .wp-image-7042 loading=“lazy” attachment-id=“7042” permalink=“http://svpow.com/2012/11/01/your-sphenoid-is-disturbingly-bat-like/sphenoid-pumpkin/” orig-file=“https://svpow.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/sphenoid-pumpkin.jpg” orig-size=“1744,2324”

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