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October 7, 2008 - 7:45 pm
Irradiated by LabRat
Irradiated by LabRat
I know content has been light lately, and that won’t change tonight- it’s now my turn in the Chair O’ Pain for an indefinite number of months, and between that and watching the debate I’m barely sure I can STAND, let alone type something coherent.
Jam tomorrow. But, for those of you readers that are biology geeks- any of y’all know where I can lay my hands on an image- photo is fine, but diagram would be good too- of a lizard skull from either a direct top-down or direct-side view, preferably both? Species doesn’t matter as long as it’s a true lizard.
October 7th, 2008 at 10:17 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4pXsCQkJDg
Not necc. exactly what you asked for, but fun…
October 8th, 2008 at 3:53 am
Just Google Komodo skull. Some great shots. Good luck.
October 8th, 2008 at 7:19 am
I might have one (skull)– I’ll check and get back later.
October 8th, 2008 at 7:49 am
Found it- one skull of a Cnemidiphorus. Want me to photo it?
October 8th, 2008 at 8:24 am
Try skulls.com or carolina biological corp.
October 8th, 2008 at 9:06 am
‘I am the Lizard King
I can do anything
I can make the earth stop in its tracks
I made the blue cars go away…’
–from ‘Celebration of the Lizard King’ by Jim Morrison 1968
Tell me all your thoughts on God…
Homer: Kids, let me tell you about another so-called “wicked” guy. He had long hair and some wild ideas. He didn’t always do what other people thought was right. And that man’s name was… I forget. Marge, you know who I’m talking about. He used to drive that blue car.
–from The Simpsons episode ‘Homer the Heretic’ 1992
October 8th, 2008 at 9:12 am
Steve- given that one of the two leading candidates for a full-fleshed representation in another part of the tattoo is a Cnemidophorus, shots of the skull would be great. I might wind up going with the Komodo skull just for the SIZE of the visual reference, but either way it would be useful to my artist.
October 8th, 2008 at 7:37 pm
As you might know, one of the cool things about Komodos is that their skulls are “too weak” by other-reptile standards–they are skeletally almost “too elegant” to take down the kind of prey they routinely can. Strong necks, yes, and razors for teeth, but supposedly not much more than catbite strength in the jaw itself, if that.
They seem to rely on a slick can-opener / blood-spill technique rather than simple “crush-crush” to do in their prey.
So in a way, Komodo skulls are a bit like those throbbing-forehead future humans beloved of Gernsbackian SF.