Dead Things

[Pyrgusfinn]

exactly what i was thinking.

and was it just me, or did it look more like a pig or a dog than some fearsome monster?

[Keaton]

Didn't they eventually determine that it was a raccoon or sloth or something like that?

[Fishalicious]

racccooon.

I had to sit there and walk through the fact that ears and noses get taken off when skinned to so many people- hell, even on some scientific communities I was one of the few not going AHHH OH MY GOD IT'S A MAN EATING BEAAST.



even the posing is similar

[The Glamour Nazi]

'Tis a Red X 'o DOOOOM.

[Fishalicious]

that one better?

[Pyrgusfinn]

I want to share some photos from the cat dissection that my anatomy and physiology class participated in this year.  These photos include gore.  You see the inside of the cat and various organs.  Ye have been warned.

there are several photos in this album

[Fishalicious]

Did you guys have to skin the cat, as well, or did you just get the cat pre-skinned/the teacher do it? I'm going to be dissecting one early next school year and I've been curious.

I really admire how well laid out the insides of animals are- they're so neatly packed and placed. It reminds me of computer packaging, with styrofoam covering the important bits and stuff. it's funny how everything we do has already been done by nature.

[Pyrgusfinn]

yeah we got to skin the cats. It was actually a lot of fun..
we spent the last half of the year working with the cats. 

And I totally didn't think of it like that. hrmm.  :-\  we really do recreate what nature has done.

If you need any help next year, feel free to ask me about anything ^_^

[Fishalicious]

mexican mummies. A friend of mine were discussing dead people and Mexicans and she linked me to this.

That one female baby is absolutely terrifying.

[darkphantomime]

mexican mummies. A friend of mine were discussing dead people and Mexicans and she linked me to this.

That one female baby is absolutely terrifying.

This is awesome! Any more pics of mummies? :3

Which baby?

[Pyrgusfinn]

mexican mummies. A friend of mine were discussing dead people and Mexicans and she linked me to this.

That one female baby is absolutely terrifying.

This is awesome! Any more pics of mummies? :3

Which baby?

I concur!! Very cool fisk. <3

[Uximadesk]

The mummies of guanajuato... naturally processed due to the type of soil in the area. Unlike Egyptian mummies, these are not "man-made".

I find them to have a strange beauty, if you ask me.

[Darth Wyndisis]

I get to dissect some kind of sea creature today, probably a lamprey.  I will let you all know how that goes.

[Pyrgusfinn]

I get to dissect some kind of sea creature today, probably a lamprey.  I will let you all know how that goes.

Oh fun!  I can't wait.

[Darth Wyndisis]

Oh, God, the smell was awful.  It wasn't really a strong smell but was still gross and kept nagging at me.  I couldn't really tell where its eyes were because they were all glazed over and half rotted.  Oh, and it had a green liver.  Its ovaries were huge; they seemed to take up most of the space inside the fish.  When I went to throw it into the waste container with all the other lampreys the smell got out and I almost threw up all over the place.