Ostrich skull with brain endocast & air spaces - yaw

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Channel: WitmerLab · 2010 · Education

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Skull of Struthio camelus (OUVC 10491), revealing the brain endocast, nasal cavity and sinuses, and tympanic air sinuses. Rendered from CT scans using Amira and QuickTime by Ryan Ridgely, and labeled by Jason Bourke. For more on ostrich and other dinosaur airheads, including PDFs of the 2008 Witmer & Ridgely article and a downloadable QuickTime version of this movie  (http://bit.ly/bRDYvy), visit http://www.oucom.ohiou.edu/dbms-witmer/DinoSinuses_main.htm . For more content like this, visit http://www.ohio.edu/witmerlab and http://www.facebook.com/witmerlab

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