Monday, May 31, 2010

* Cervical ribs

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cervical_vertebrae
"In many species, though not in mammals, the cervical vertebrae bear ribs. In many other groups, such as lizards and saurischian dinosaurs, the cervical ribs are large; in birds they are small and completely fused to the vertebrae. "

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