Oolon Colluphid

Thanks Patrick, as usual! :notworthy
Hmmm. Is that different from the thing I've been calling the tibiotarsus? I'm good at wielding obscure words, but I'm not expert enough to avoid pulling the wrong one out of my ragbag memory and knowing that I have!

Ah, here's where I got it from.



We're talking drumsticks here, right?

Thanks for the others. Of course, the more I find, thelonger that darned list will take to get webified...

Oolon

ps418

No, they're not the same thing, but they are adjacent to one another. The tibiotarsus is the bone formed by the fusion of tibia with the astragalus. Its the bone between the femur and the tarsometatarsus. The tarsometatarsus, on the other hand, is formed by the fusion of the tarsals and metatarsals in the foot.


Tarsometatarsus

Also, in my last post, I mean pelvic bones rather than pubic bones.

Patrick

EDIT: Changed astralagus to astragalus, cuz i kant spel.

Oolon Colluphid

Wow, thanks Patrick.

This is definitely going into the list. How do creationists cope with fusing bones -- bones that in other animals are functionally separate? I mean, these examples are even more cases of, 'why not a single bone?'

Oolon the mind-boggled