CROCLIST: Shameless self-promotion

[Steve]

Great link, Jon!  We appreciate it.



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jonathan R. Wagner" <jonathan.r.wagner at mail.utexas.edu>
To: <croclist at lists.gatorhole.com>
Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2006 11:47 AM
Subject: CROCLIST: Shameless self-promotion


>I set up the following page on digimorph.org as a favor to the folks who 
>work there, and to try and raise the bar for supplementary text on that 
>website. It is intended to serve  as an online outline and collection of 
>illustrations for a lecture on the finer points of the anatomy of the 
>crocodilian skull, for users who are already familiar with the basic bones 
>and structures of a reptile skull.
>
> http://www.digimorph.org/specimens/Crocodylus_moreletii/
>
> For those of you who don't know the site, digimorph.com is an 
> NSF-sponsored digital library of CT scans of objects, mostly vertebrate 
> skeletons (there is one pineapple!). Scans can be viewed in a number of 
> ways, including 2D slices, and quicktime movies  of 3D reconstructions. 
> Many of the latter are cut-aways, allowing detailed exploration of the 
> internal structure of the object. For professionals, this technology is 
> especially useful, because it allows non-destructive evaluation of the 
> internal structure of rare or sensitive species, and can be used on whole 
> preserved specimens to avoid the distortion associated with dried skeletal 
> material. Scans are expensive ($500-1500 is typical), and nearly all of 
> the funds used are public, so everyone is invited to make the most 
> possible use of this resource. Within the strictures of copyright laws and 
> proper scientific ethics with regard to the treatment of others' data, of 
> course.
>
> The website has a number of other crocodilian scans, although not all of 
> them are up to the standard of detail and rendering of the example at the 
> link given above. It also has fossil dinosaurs, birds, turtles, lizards, 
> snakes, a couple tuataras, and some other, much less interesting animals 
> as well.
>
> I hope you enjoy this,
>
> Jon Wagner
>
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