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My cat’s neck skeleton (first five cervicals)
Tuesday, October 27, 2015 17:09
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When I separated my cat’s head from its body, the first five cervical vertebrae came with it. Never one to waste perfectly good cervicals, I prepped them as well as the skull. Here they are, nicely articulated. (Click through for high resolution.) Dorsal view at the top, then right lateral (actually, slightly dorsolateral) and ventral view at the bottom.
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For those of us used to sauropod necks, where the atlas (C1) is a tiny, fragile ring, mammal atlases look bizarre, with their grotesque over-engineering and gigantic wings.
Source: http://svpow.com/2015/10/27/my-cats-neck-skeleton-first-five-cervicals/
