just found out about snake skeletons and they disturb me
(photo under cut because they genuinely make me uncomfortable lol)
THEY ARE ALL RIBS. WHAT THE FUCK
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Meant to post this sooner but a piece I did for my senior exhibit~
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Python Vertebrae Pendant
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film adaptations are all fun and games until ppl start watching the movie without reading the book,,then it just becomes the 10th circle of dante’s hell
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I'm finally done
The 3.74 meter reticulated python is finally finished, I am extremely proud, I feel like a peacock
There were probably more than a thousand pieces and I still have a 2.5 meter burmese degreasing and two other snakes in the freezer waiting to be cleaned and articulated
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Making lots of curio collection earrings lately, mostly heading for a local event but the first pair with doll eyes and jewel beetle shells is in my shop, link in bio! And feel free to message me to claim one or request a custom pair
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You probably have already answered this at some point already, but are snakes all neck or all intestine? Are there more sections to a snake's body besides then The Head and The Tube, and if so what would those be?
Really good question!
Here's a good diagram of what's going on in there. As you can see, it's mostly lung and digestive system. Snakes are mostly torso, so that's a lot of space dedicated to respiration and digestion. You can see that snakes have the same organs we do, just enlongated, and there tends to be only one of most paired organs (like lungs, snakes only have one full lung and the left lung is typically vestigial and always at least smaller).
What exactly counts as a snake's neck depends on who you ask and what definitions you're using, but in general snakes have pretty short necks.
The traditional view is that a snake's neck is only those few vertebrae between the skull and torso, before the ribs start.
Other herpetologists define the neck as the vertebrae above the heart, roughly analogous to where the collarbone would be in other animals, and others define it based on function. If it has super-stretchy skin (as snake necks must) and the snake tends to hold it in a different way than the rest of the body, that's the neck. In these perspectives, the neck is between the lines I've marked here:
Then there's the tail! The tail starts just after the cloaca (that's the all-purpose opening snakes use for passing waste, breeding, etc.). Snakes have short tails compared to their bodies, and the tail itself is used as convenient storage space for sexual organs. The tail is easy to spot as it doesn't have any ribs.
The tail starts right after the cloaca, so it's easy to see on live snakes, too.
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Danny has been adopted by the Waynes, Vlad has followed him to Gotham and set himself up as mayor much like he did in Amity Park. Turns out someone with a duel obsession of being loved and workplace safety has a lot they can do to fulfill that in a city practically built on OSHA violations. Vlad becomes the best mayor Gotham has ever seen. And, to the dismay of several corrupt organizations, incorruptible and unkillable, even if the assassin swore they shot him point blank
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The idea that Vlad becomes the Mayor of Gotham is SUCH a fascinating concept. Batman goes to Vlad to try to frighten him into following the law and not taking bribes. Vlad takes bribes but shockingly does turn Gotham around for the better.
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