Discover the fascinating world of animal anatomy without the need for scalpels or dissection equipment. Thanks to online replicas, museum collections are now accessible to a wider audience, offering a unique peek inside the inner workings of various creatures. Evolutionary biologist Edward Stanley of the Florida Museum of Natural History at the University of Florida in Gainesville describes the experience as a journey into the unexpected, revealing parasitic infections, last meals, and new insights into animal anatomy. For example, CT scans of pumpkin toadlets’ inner ears unveiled the reason behind their crash-landed hops, while images of spiny mice showed that their tails are covered in bony armor like an armadillo (SN: 5/24/23).
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