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Every now and then, you come across a sauropod skull so beautiful, it’s almost enough to distract you from the vertebrae that it was attached to. One such is the Giraffatitan brancai skull HMN T1, which you’ve seen here before if you’ve been around for a while.
“Sauropods are basically alien animals . . . What can be said of the habits of an animal with the nose of a Macrauchenia, the neck of a giraffe, the limbs of an elephant, the feet of a chalicothere, the lungs of a bird, and the tail of a lizard?
What’s that? You want proof, you say? Well, I find your lack of faith disturbing;
It’s been a while since we last caught up with my wallaby, which I am suddenly going to decide to call Logan. When we saw him last, I was concentrating on his feet, although the initial post does also include a photo of the partially prepped skull in right lateral view.
Cleaning and bleaching is complete!
After the third simmering, Veronica the Ostrich Head started to come apart beautifully — more so than she should have done in one or two places, as it became apparent that her skull, as well as being incompletely fused due to presumed subadult age at time of death, was slightly damaged.
Yesterday, I followed up Veronica’s second simmering by taking more flesh off the bones, and in doing this I stared to take apart the bones that constitute the skull.
Please welcome my new best friend, Veronica the ostrich. Well, Veronica the ostrich head , if you want to be picky. She arrived yesterday morning, courtesy of the good folks at Ostrichfayre, very well packaged and still frozen and with a convenient little chunk of distal neck still attached.
