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Right hindlimb of giraffe ready for CT scan!
I’m preparing to do anatomically-realistic computer modelling of giraffe locomotor mechanics with some colleagues. To do that, we of course need the 3D anatomy of bones, muscles and tendons, for which...
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Giraffe right hindlimb: what a CT scan shows you
Giraffe limb from previous post, now shown via movie of DICOM (CT image data) files. Axial slices every 2.5mm, from toes to knee/stifle. Darker areas are lower density (black is air); white is very...
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3D rendering of CT data for giraffe hindlimb is easy!
We use Mimics software, which is pricey but sooooo easy to do stuff like this. Here I’ve just had a very quick pass at reconstructing the distal hindlimb (limb except the thigh, which had bad scan...
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Scanner’s eye view of giraffe leg
This is why we get scan artifacts from giant specimens. It fits, but only just. The x-ray beams are getting scattered from being too close to the x-ray detectors (ring around the specimen), creating...
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Awesome giraffe dissection photo!
William Pérez from the Veterinary Anatomy Facebook page sent me a link to this stunning image of a giraffe hindlimb dissection– wowza!
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Head over to dinosaurpalaeo for Mammal Monday 17 and a Giraffe Dissection!
Heinrich Mallison’s photo-rific dinosaurpalaeo blog has the first of what might, if the Gods of the Freezers remain kind, be a series of posts on our dissections of some of the verrrrrry same giraffe...
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Inside Various Giants (A Pictorial Retrospective)
There’s no better way to kick things off after a holiday than with a celebration of the Inside Nature’s Giants series, which I had a small part in early on, including these shots I took during the time...
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An Anatomist’s View Inside “Animal Inside Out” (a review of the NHM exhibit)
Title is so meta? OK Londoners, and Olympics visitors, and anatomy (or just science/biology) buffs, and those not lucky enough to see other versions of the animal Body Worlds show. You have a mission....
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A Thank-You to Readers… With Some Awesome Giraffe Anatomy
I have a lot to be thankful for as a scientist, including a great, steady set of blog readers interested in my freezer and its sundry tenants. And now and then I get a fun surprise, like Redditors...
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Natural History Specimens of Dublin: A 28 Hour Tour
A photo blog post for ya here! I went to Dublin on a ~28 hour tour, for a PhD viva (now-Dr Xia Wang; bird feather/flight evolution thesis) earlier this month. And I made a beeline for the local natural...
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RVC’s Anatomy Museum, Part 2
Last time I gave a quick overview of the museum and anatomy’s long history at the RVC. I’ll cover some of the cool skulls we have on display first, then in future posts the dissected specimens, then...
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Freezermas Day 4: DARWIN DAY- Quadrupedopheniaphilia (Trim My Hooves)
Why should you care If you have to trim my hooves? I’ve got to move with good feet Or be put down fast. I know I should trot But my old vet she cares a lot. And I’m still living on stone Even though...
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My Summer in the SML
Excellent post by a summer research student on my team! From BSc to the future: the journey of a locomotion student I spent this summer, the second of my undergraduate degree, in the Royal Veterinary...
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Better Know A Muscle: 2. Biceps brachii
GIF of the human biceps (above) and its antagonist triceps (below) in action- By “Niwadare” – own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=38718790 Last year on Darwin Day I...
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A Museum Evolves
One of my favourite museums in the world, and certainly one of the best natural history museums in the UK, is Cambridge’s Museum of Zoology, AKA “University Museum of Zoology at Cambridge” (UMZC). It...
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Darwin Day 2019: Some Papers In Evolutionary Biomechanics
Today is the 210th anniversary of Charles R. Darwin’s birthday so I put together a quick post. I’d been meaning to blog about some of our latest scientific papers, so I chose those that had an explicit...
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