Morphology. Drawing. Life.

Morphology is the architecture of life. The ingenuity of form and function.....breathtaking through tattered remains. I prepare skeletons for study, draw things and take pictures. [email protected]

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Fun fact and underutilized Horror idea

When you brand animals, it leaves a scar deep within the structure of skin that never goes away, even when the skin is turned into leather.

It's often not immediately visible, but it can surface years later when subtle differences in the texture of the scarring catches dirt and gets worn differently than the surrounding area.

Its sort of like the opposite of a memory that fades....the scars that once marked the individual slowly surface over time on the things that they've become after death... furniture, jackets, Etc

I would love to see this used in horror writing more. It's so eerie.

Like.... imagine inheriting a vintage handbag that's been in your family for generations and slowly noticing over time that markings appear on the surface of the leather...Slowly the emerging patterns connect into words....a name.

You do some research and the name is not a farmer or a rancher....its a slave trader.

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TIL that INaturalist, the citizen science app where you share observations of plants and animals living in a certain region is being inundated with AI generated photos of new species that do not actually exist.

Like this mantis.

This photo caught the eye of a mantis researcher,

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People are using AI to take redo my posts with better illustrations and the algorithm recommends back them to me.

In a sense I guess this is easier. Because instead of stealing or reposting other people's posts, they could just completely redo them and it can't be reported.

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ITS 2AM.....

Hamsters are really popular pets..... But for some reason no one keeps pet moles.

People breed hamsters and they come in all sorts of different colors and varieties. But for some reason no one breeds different colored moles or long-haired moles.

Like what makes hamsters great pets, and moles apparently are pests?

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https://anatomikascience.etsy.com

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10 to 20 lb is a lot of meat. Especially during the holidays. I feel like whoever would be picking this up would be feeding a lot of people. Like a soup kitchen or something.

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Metabolic Bone Disease is actually really common in frogs, and I don't know if anybody ever thinks about this.

I just think about this a lot because when people buy them, I try to select ones without this condition because I don't want people to think this is a diaphonization mistake.

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This was labeled as "Iatrogenic aspiration pneumonia" in a puppy.

The word "IATROGENIC" means a medical condition that was caused by the doctor or the medical treatment itself.

"Iatrogenic aspiration pneumonia" a string of fancy and detached medical terms that means "We were giving the puppy a barium fluid contrast to drink to prepare it for a scan, and we put the tube down the windpipe instead and now the puppies lung is entirely filled with barium paste"

Says the "Patient outcome is unknown".

That is just a longer way to say "Dead".

I kind of dropped my mug when I saw these x-rays. GODDAMN. I hope they sued.

From Simakov.vet on instagram.

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Getting into the real vulture culture with @arsanatomica !

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I appear in the background of this video questioning the smell of carcass.

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Are intersexed dolphins more likely to be killed by humans for being intersex? Is that why they're not rare? Because people kill more of them?

I mean....Im only looking at Finless porpoises right now, but the species is endangered and nobody hunts these guys.

The main source of death for these guys is becoming entangled in fishing nets and drowning.

These are just random accidents, so if people see a lot of intersexed ones, that necessarily doesn't mean that intersexed ones are dying a lot more in nets. There might just be a lot more of them out there.

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I don't have any photos that I can post, but in my time dissecting animals I've seen only a handful of intersex animals and today I saw another one.

An intersex dolphin.

He is an adult male finless porpoise. Behind the long slit where he retracts his penis was a small extra opening.

It was an undeveloped set of female genitalia and even had nipples on either side.

He also had a rope burn all the way around his neck from where he had become entangled in fishing gear and then had subsequently drowned.

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UPDATE:

I talked to two of the researchers today and they're not as excited as I am because they just see it all the time.

Apparently it's not even particularly rare for finless porpoises to have intersex features....and it's true for a lot of open ocean dolphin species.

Well....okay

[arsanatomica]

I don't have any photos that I can post, but in my time dissecting animals I've seen only a handful of intersex animals and today I saw another one.

An intersex dolphin.

He is an adult male finless porpoise. Behind the long slit where he retracts his penis was a small extra opening.

It was an undeveloped set of female genitalia and even had nipples on either side.

He also had a rope burn all the way around his neck from where he had become entangled in fishing gear and then had subsequently drowned.

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Lead residue from bullet fused into bone.

In movies and comics and stories, when someone survives being shot, they just remove the bullet and that's all.

In real life situations, as the bullet leaves the barrel of the gun and travels through the air, the metal gets extremely hot.

When it comes into contact with a hard surface like bone, it's like dragging a piece of chalk across the pavement. It leaves a metal residue that gets fused to the bone itself.

The gray part on the photo is the lead residue from a bullet. It only grazed the bone here, but still left behind residue.

Over a period of years the lead can slowly start to leach out from the bone causing lead poisoning.

Long-term lead poisoning is something that's not often talked about with gunshot wounds, but this is how it happens. Even if you remove the bullet fragments, its not enough, because you can't remove the residue.

You can't remove the lead residue but you can give medications to lessen the impact of lead on the body.

I almost never see this mentioned in stories except for medical dramas. But honestly it would be great to see this touched on more.

Because.....well....there's all these badass characters in fiction who survived being shot multiple times and they're just portrayed as tough and battle-hardened. But among themes of survival, the lasting impact of these types of injuries is rarely explored.