Wishbone Wednesday

Of Clavicles and Furculas

StarBears may not have furculas, and cannot fly, but they do have pharyngeal bulbs…in fact the entire animal resembles a developing foetus. 

from Pharyngeal Arch wiki

Do you wish to bone up on your tardigrade facts?

H/T’s to:

• Sophia Wallace on tumblr (Official Site)
• Wishbone Chair by Hans J. Wegner for Carl Hansen & Søn (design-milk.com)
• This Thanksgiving, Make a Wish upon a Dinosaur (Brian Switek, blogsmithsonianmag.com)
• And never grow a wishbone… (marantandmerlot.wordpress.com)
• Brain circuitry loss may be a very early sign of cognitive decline in healthy elderly people (medicalxpress.com)