Not far away, however, was a big lump of stone containing several vertebrae of just the right size, and these were used as models to complete the papier-mache skeleton shown at Atlanta, in 1894.
Albert Koch thought otherwise, and did with Zeuglodon as, later on, he did with the Mastodon, combining the vertebrae of several individuals until he had a monster 114 feet long!
There are less than a dozen vertebrae and still fewer ribs, besides half a barrelful of pieces, from which to reconstruct a backbone twenty feet long.
The vertebral column itself is limp and soft, the vertebrae only imperfectly formed and made of soft cartilage.
The anterior vertebrae are much enlarged, twisted together, and through them passes a chain of bones which connect with the hidden cavity of the air.
The members of this sub-family have more dorsal vertebrae than are found in other Lemurs; the range is from fourteen in Loris, to sixteen in Nycticebus.
The amount to which the cervical vertebrae are fused varies; but some are always fused.
It is noteworthy that in Rhytina the cervical vertebrae have the exceedingly thin centra that characterises the neck vertebrae in Whales.
The dorsal vertebrae again are not fused together; the hind-limbs are five-toed.
The vertebraeresemble those of the modern Lamas closely in their general proportions.
The Creodont peculiarity of the vertebrae has already been referred to.
In correspondence with this massive carapace the dorsal vertebrae have fused together, and the lumbar vertebrae form a series ankylosed to each other and to the following sacrals.
The axis vertebra and the two following vertebrae are fused together.
A peculiarity of the cervical vertebrae is that (as in the Camels) the vertebrarterial canal of several of the vertebrae perforates the pedicle obliquely.
The cervical vertebrae are free as in Rorquals, and the sternum is quite as in that group.
Moreover, the articulation of the ribs with the vertebrae does not show the very anomalous state of affairs that characterises Physeter, where the two heads of a rib may be upon one vertebra.
The same shortness of the spines of the dorsal vertebraeprevails in this group as in the other Amblypoda, though it is perhaps hardly so marked.
And this because such birds possess a somewhat more flexible spine, there being a certain amount of "play" where the vertebrae of the loins join the welded mass of vertebrae which lie between the bones of the hip-girdle.
In the foetus it consists of five distinct pieces of bone separated by intervening layers of cartilage, like the vertebrae of the spinal column, and from their resemblance to those bones they have been called false vertebrae.
And then, little by little, her bones had rarefied and lost shape, the vertebrae had sunk, the bones of the pelvis had flattened, and those of the arms and legs had contracted.
At the age of puberty, the component vertebrae began to unite from below upwards, and the two highest have now coalesced; which also marks a period of life not earlier than the twenty-fifth year.
Repeated perpendicular concussions had, I confidently believed, telescoped my spinal vertebrae into each other, so that nothing short of a surgical operation would ever restore them to their original positions.
He first of all described Twala, the last of the Kukuana kings, as in a limestone cave, with his head perched upon his knees and his vertebrae projecting a full inch above the shrunken flesh of the neck.
A few parts of additional vertebrae can be seen, but they are so scattered that it is impossible to be sure of their original location.
The vertebrae are comparable to those of Ichthyostegalia (Jarvik, 1952), as well as to those of Embolomeri.
It is possible, nevertheless, to see that the trunk vertebrae resemble those of Ichthyostegalia (Jarvik, 1952, Fig.
Indeed this view of the neural arch and intercentrum together brings out the striking resemblance between the vertebrae of Hesperoherpeton and those of the Ichthyostegids.
The vertebrae are similar to those of Ichthyostegids, as described by Jarvik (1952), except that the pleurocentra are much larger.
And when other means fail he seizes the tails of his team and twists them so that the last four or five vertebraegrind on each other.
The vertebrae stand up on its crest like park palings, and the skeleton suggests paleontology as much as actual natural history, though the creature is an unmistakable cow.
As each pad is removed there is a horrid revelation of wounds, deep ulcers, sores often a foot long, and in some cases the white vertebrae of the spine are exposed.
I unfortunately caught my foot in the pack of one and rolled it over, and as it disappeared in the snow its pack and saddle fell over its head and displayed the naked vertebrae of its poor back.
Professor Sedgwick possesses in the Cambridge Museum a mass of anchylosed cervical vertebrae of a whale, which he found in drift clay near Ely, and which he has no doubt was washed out of the Kimmeridge clay, an upper member of the Oolite.
For want of similar precautions, they are often killed by the deer on the spot, the vertebrae of their neck being dislocated by the violence of the shock.
This is what has happened: The vertebrae have grown together, and the backbone is a tube upon which the original nodules in the skin have become fixed, and have broadened into the central line of plates.
Its talons closed like a cramp upon thevertebrae of the tiny quadruped, which the next moment was borne aloft into the air!
For several minutes Groot Willem continued to exert his strength, dragging the long cylinder until he could hear its vertebrae crack, but without gaining an inch!
The vertebrae have been economically withdrawn from the tail, and the cartilaginous axis of the side fins has been fotfoid unnecessary.
The primitive biconcave vertebrae of the fish and of the early land vertebrates were retained, and the limbs degenerated into short paddles.
In most modern fishes and in all higher vertebrates the notochord is gradually removed as the bodies of the vertebrae are formed about it; but in the Devonian fishes it persists through maturity and the vertebrae remain incomplete.
Note the circular mouth not supplied with jaws, the lack of paired fins, and the symmetric tail fin, with the column of cartilaginous, ringlike vertebrae running through it to the end.
The vertebrae were not ossified, for no trace of them has been found.
They also present certain osteological differences from the right whales; the latter have the whole of the seven cervical vertebrae anchylosed, that is to say generally, for sometimes the seventh is free.
The number of caudal vertebrae in the tiger and lion should be twenty-six.
The cervical vertebrae sometimes become anchylosed, from whence, in former times, arose the superstition that this animal had but one bone in the neck.
In the finbacks the cervical vertebrae are, as a rule, all distinct and free, although occasionally anchylosis may take place between two or more of them.
In Orca generally four or five cervical vertebrae are ankylosed as in the cachelots, but in the two species of Orcella only the atlas and axis are joined.
According to Temminck the tail is longer than that of the last species, having 28 caudal vertebrae against 22 of the other; if this be found to be the normal state, there will be additional grounds for separating the two.
The transverse processes of the ninth thoracic are a little curved backward, and on the first lumbar and succeeding vertebrae bent forward.
The free ends of the neural spines of the thoracic and lumbar vertebrae are all more or less rounded.
In these vertebraethe inferior ridges are also pierced by foramina.
Those of the succeeding vertebrae are similar, but decrease gradually in length, while somewhat increasing in breadth.
The ends of the transverse processes of the eighth and ninth vertebraeare emarginate for the articulation of the ribs.
As far as can be learned from the descriptions of Turner, Grieg, and others, the thoracic vertebrae of europaeus do not present any marked differences from those of bidens.
There is no doubt in my mind that the number of thoracic vertebrae in B.
None of the transverse processes of the caudal vertebraeare perforated by foramina.
Skull, mandible, and cervical vertebrae of a very young individual.
The last ten vertebrae are without processes or neural arches.
The heads of the ribs articulate with the bodies of two contiguous thoracic vertebrae and the disk between.
Examples of this are the symphysis pubis, the mesosternal joint, and the joints between the bodies of the vertebrae (fig.
The anterior of these is the stellate ligament, which has three bands radiating from the head of the rib to the two vertebrae and the intervening disk.
The bodies of the vertebrae except those of the sacrum and coccyx are separated, and at the same time connected, by the intervertebral disks.
The neural arches of the vertebrae articulate one with another by the articular facets, each of which has a capsular ligament.
The mouth is opened, and the first vertebrae of the neck is cut.
When the skin has been cut back as far as possible, disengage the vertebrae at the tail, and this will enable the operator to detach the skin from the back; the vertebrae are now cut close to the head, and the whole carcass removed.
The tail-bearer is then inserted into the sheath, and the oval part of the wire placed within the skin of the belly, and attached to the longitudinal wire, which is substituted for the vertebrae or backbone.
Note variations in the form and number of the vertebrae and the number of the ribs.
Sa' crum#, a composite bone formed by the union of vertebrae in the region of hips.
Wherever possible, find the vertebrae of the neck (cervical), and note the number of them in each case.
In round numbers, which skeleton has the greatest number of vertebrae and which the least?
On thevertebrae notice any irregularities, prominences, or roughenings.
Examining the interior of the turtle's "shell," find out and explain how the vertebrae have been modified to form the upper "shell.
Are thevertebrae of these types alike in structure?
What advantage can you see in having the column composed of many small vertebrae instead of a few large ones?
How many vertebrae are there in the spinal column?
One link more ofvertebrae would have spoiled her, turned her up too sloping between the shoulders, and made her gangling in the hips.
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