please no halloween posts just yet. there’s still 2 months left
did someone say halloween
Nine years and it’s still not at 1 million notes. I know we can do better!
Let’s see if we can get this to 1M before the 10 year anniversary on the 3rd.
people love extolling the virtues of ball-and-socket joints and how it makes us more advanced and all that but I don't see any fucking octopuses in slings now do I. Bones are overrated and I want a refund.
how dare you lay this curse upon my home
you don't frighten me
The Young Prince
In 1942 at Arene Candide Cave, Liguria, Italy, the 23,500-year-old remains of a young, Upper Paleolithic man we’re discovered. Thought to be a member of the Gravettian culture, this young male is aged to be around 15-years-old at time of death. Reports seem him tall and seemingly strong, likely a hunter during his lifetime.
Found on a bed of red ochre, the man was “spectacularly ornamented” with shells and deer canines, all perforated, and likely having formed some kind of cap. Also found alongside the remains was a mammoth ivory pendent and a 23cm-long flint blade in his right hand. The items found with the remains are what earned him the nickname ‘Il Principe,’ AKA The Young Prince.
comic sans
oh you like your skeleton? name every bone in your body. i’ll remove whatever you forget
I came to this webbed site to forget about my anatomy finals and I feel so attacked right now
*loses triquetrum*
fun fact bones used to be worn outside the body
you think this is on of my shitposts, but when bone material first evolved in organisms about 1.5 billion years ago, it was in the form of exoskeletons/shells. they served as protective shields. you know, like with turtles, or sea urchin spines.
exoskeletons helped protect the softer anatomy, but also restricted movement and surface sensory organs. eventually bones evolved to be inside the body instead of outside. this had a lot of benefits, and led to the evolution of vertebrates.
@arsanatomica does a great job of illustrating it here!
a neat fact is all this started when violent tectonic plate movements deposited huge amounts of minerals (including calcium) into the ocean (where life was based). this allowed organisms to develop hard body parts, such as shells or spines.
earthquakes caused bones and i think that’s nifty!
i feel like this image really sums up their relationship
