#pathologies

[nabsthevulture]

What on earth is going on here? Single rib? Nah. Double rib? No thanks.

Gimme that TRIPLE RIB.

Rabbits are very strange creatures.

[he-who-needs-to-be-silenced]

Raeticodactylus thinks it might be raining

[ancientstuff]

Rare diseases in the Bronze Age

I find osteology and the pathologies found in ancient remains just fascinating. It’s amazing to me how much can be seen in the bones.

[infinitysisters]

Ideological ugliness in the name of egalitarianism continues to do damage, with the paradoxical result that it increases inequality: For as it destroys beauty and elegance, so beauty and elegance become ever more rarefied and available to a smaller and smaller elite, and this is so even where income and consumption increase. The standard of living rises while the quality of life falls

-Theodore Dalrymple

[strangebiology]

My latest video and article for Ripley’s-- read more about animals with two faces here!

[he-who-needs-to-be-silenced]

Ressemblance

A little diabloceratops notices that an old bull has the same birth defect to his crest and feels… uhh…. Idk… i guess comforted?? Knowing that he’s not alone in the weird world of ceratopsian crests. The old bull also notices this and does a little bow of respect.

In the background there is an individual I call mace face, due to the fact the pathology on the crest originates from an ankylosaur or a pachycephalosaur hitting them in the face as a child, scratching themself. The relation of mace face to the other ones into the piece isn’t specific so feel free to headcannon (ideas of mine include: mother of baby, child of gramps, a & b, sibling of baby, and stranger)

[nabsthevulture]

While I was reworking everyone’s files, I took some extra time to just look at how messed up Hera’s teeth are! I don’t believe this is how they should be normally of course, so there must’ve been something real awry with her. Sideways molars, extra embedded incisors, wonky jaw composition? What else was wrong with her skeleton I wonder.

The weirdest tooth is the one that’s sideways in the middle picture. The whole tooth is backwards! The front is facing back and vice versa.