2nd Teaser for #ISeeTheWorldWithScience
This is a surface rendering of the image I posted yesterday (also included below). It’s an angle that hopefully makes it harder to guess. Tomorrow I will post the final image.
If you want to guess what the specimen is tell me something interesting about it but don’t say what it is. I get annoyed when people don’t follow instructions, maybe because I’m an engineer. So please don’t blurt out the answer.
If you don’t want to guess, you can tell me what science the image makes you think of.
I will pick the winner after the 3rd image has been up for 48 hrs.
Previous examples of #ISeeTheWorldWithScience
http://goo.gl/98ZhNL via Mark Crowley
http://goo.gl/kPz2Kr via Rajini Rao
http://goo.gl/3nhaI4 via Johnathan Chung
Have fun learning science
it lives in the water ?!
Quite the myssss-tery 😉
Micha Fire in general they can but this one doesn’t live in water.
Thex Dar this one won’t turn to apple cider.
Rajini Rao not a mystery for you.
I don’t suppose this is related to all the anklebiters you find on Facebook, is it?
Valdis Kletnieks I don’t think so. I think this would definitely leave a mark.
yes, it’s the teeth that are a good hint, but not enough yet for me 😛
It has comical implications doesn’t it?
It could be Thex Dar
Remember guesses should tell me something interesting about what you think it is and not just the answer.
Owen Gale it’s not funny to me but I’m probably totally missing your idea.
Looking at the joint between the frontal bone and nasal bone, that probably allows the nose to upturn, increasing the angle of gape and assisting in swallowing….. other than that I can see an almost laminar flow in the the rendering, which is quite beautiful, allows for real good visualization.
Have no idea Chad, but hope it’s not something I eat O_o
Alligator would be my guess.
I got your reference now Owen Gale and you are right.
Aha, I get Owen Gale comment too, especially since I very recently referred to this reference in my post 🙂
I will post the final picture tonight even though Owen Gale won this round.
A great rendering, and quite fun that you can see the nerve/vessel foramina for the palatine teeth in that view. Where was the CT imaging performed?
Michael Habib I did this at University of Chicago.
Chad Haney: Good stuff. It’s a nice bit of imaging.
Some other cool features I note: Great view of how the dentaries are spaced anteriorly left and right, and the complex joints at the quadrate articulations.
Thanks Michael Habib, you might have more to say after I add the last image(s).
Sounds great, Chad Haney. I’ll look to pitch in when the last images hit.
The latest post with more pics is here: http://goo.gl/XpKIco