Have you ever seen a pregnant bat skeleton?? This incredible articulation of mother and fetus was just completed for the Prehistoria Natural History Centre (#PNHC) by Toby (@tobia5_b0ch), our in-house articulator!
Bizarrely enough, bat fetuses typically develop horizontal (transverse) in their wombs, unlike our typically vertical development.
I’ve handled dozens of equine skulls over the years and I’ve never seen one with eyes like this. She’s got huge, swooping brows and eye sockets shaped like teardrops with porous bone around them. Very odd!
She’s pictured with a draft horse mare and a donkey jenny. Horse skulls typically have very nice, round eye sockets. Donkeys usually have what I call “sad eyes” with sockets with a little backwards droop to them.
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