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But not “funny ha-ha”. More like, “funny how that neck is clearly impossible.” I mean, really. This is another shot from the Museum of Osteology in Oklahoma City. A few hundred more posts like this and I’ll be done. For more flamingo-related weirdness, check out Casey Holliday’s work (with Ryan Ridgely, Amy Balanoff, and Larry Witmer) on the wacky blood vessels in flamingo heads.

Another nice display from the Museum of Osteology in Oklahoma City (previous MoO posts here and here). Check out the really gnarly ones that are indeed growing right through the bones of the face. That must have sucked. We’ve covered rodent teeth here a few times before (one, two)–more than is probably right, for a blog ostensibly about sauropod vertebrae.

Another shot from my visit last month to the Museum of Osteology in Oklahoma City: the business end of a tegu ( Tupinambis ). Lots of cool stuff in this pic: heterodont dentition, wacky sclerotic ossicles, and some sweet neurovascular foramina along the maxilla. Someone should knock out a shrink-wrapped life restoration, a la All Todays .

Well, I’m back. Been on the road a lot–to Flagstaff for a few days around Memorial Day, and in Oklahoma to visit family in the first half of June. Now I’m busy with the summer anatomy course, but I finally found time to post some pictures. One of my favorite museums in the world is the Museum of Osteology in Oklahoma City.