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[This post received first place in the 2024 Blog Extravaganza at Adam Mastroianni’s Experimental History. Many thanks, Adam!] I first had this thought in 2019, and I started this draft in early 2020, but…you know how that particular story turned out. I’m picking it back up again now because I’ve had the titular point reinforced on several trips and projects over the past couple of years.

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This is a caudal vertebra from the middle of the tail of an ostrich, LACM Bj342: {.aligncenter .size-full .wp-image-8259 loading=“lazy” attachment-id=“8259” permalink=“http://svpow.com/2013/04/10/crazy-pneumatic-ostrich-caudal/ostrich-caudal-composite-2/” orig-file=“https://svpow.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/ostrich-caudal-composite1.jpeg” orig-size=“4338,3469” comments-opened=“1”