ok. i know thats a weird question, but im taking mammalogy this semester and basically have to know every bone in the freakin' body. so i was wondering if anyone knew where i could get an assembled skeleton and/or skull around here? i was thinkin some kind of science place, but i dunno of any....

thanks

9/12/2006 5:15:26 PM

Try the ghetto You might be able to ask a professor, or ebay.

9/12/2006 5:27:48 PM

i think there's like...a discovery channel store or something in the mall.
try party city - it's halloween time, but i don't know how accurate they'd be. or try a teacher supply store. my dad work in radiology - they're expensive.

This place is having a sale on real human bones:
http://www.boneroom.com/bone/humanbones.html

9/12/2006 6:20:35 PM

Give me about 80 years... & 200 bucks and I'll have one for ya.

9/12/2006 6:22:36 PM

All the necrophiliacs claim it's for "science."

Sicko.

9/12/2006 6:25:49 PM

oh snap get this one

9/12/2006 6:28:49 PM

in my closet

9/12/2006 6:31:27 PM

real skeletons are very expensive, I would advise not getting it over a class.

9/12/2006 6:32:18 PM

ive got like 12 dead hookers in my trunk.

9/12/2006 6:42:01 PM

^edit: 11 dead hookers... i borrowed one last night.

9/12/2006 6:42:56 PM

^edit: 10 dead hookers... i got hungry this morning.

9/12/2006 6:57:07 PM

^ edit: 15 dead hookers.... i had a hell of an afternoon.

9/12/2006 7:00:02 PM

You can't use a book example?

9/12/2006 8:55:03 PM

^edit: 14 dead hookers... my 1 dead hooker got lonely, now she has a friend.

9/12/2006 8:58:43 PM

I've got a skeleton. my sister got in when she was in med school and had a rotation with an ortho

9/12/2006 9:01:26 PM

I can think of one obvious place.

9/12/2006 9:02:09 PM

http://www.anatomy-resources.com/human-anatomy/sh712.htm

small in size but could be useful

9/12/2006 9:05:13 PM

my friend Jeremy is going to guest lecture for mammalogy this week. (tomorrow i think)

9/12/2006 9:11:06 PM

it is indeed tommorrow. just steal one from lab

9/12/2006 9:24:23 PM

Quote :

"in my closet"

You win.

9/12/2006 10:48:12 PM

a coffin

9/13/2006 1:14:27 AM

Can't you learn the bones by looking at a book? I mean, that's how I did it in 5th grade...and I sang the "Bones" song that my teacher taught us...

9/13/2006 6:49:29 AM

Why would you need a skeleton for a class about tits anyway?

9/13/2006 7:01:15 AM

Quote :

"where can i get a skeleton?"

You don't already have one?

9/13/2006 7:24:22 AM

Yeah, learning the bones in the body isn't very difficult. I had to learn all of them when I was in middle school. I used a picture in a book and my own body in order to learn them.

9/13/2006 8:32:18 AM

^ did you learn all the actual names? or just the generic names? could you ID any single bone given too you?

protrudences? features? attachment points?

9/13/2006 8:48:16 AM

I have a life size med classroom skeleton I'll sell you for $300.

9/13/2006 8:55:36 AM

9/13/2006 8:57:28 AM

^ well played

9/13/2006 9:13:40 AM

^^ ftw

9/13/2006 10:27:16 AM

this is a great thread.


and http://www.boneroom.com/bone/humanbones.html


creeps me out

9/13/2006 10:37:13 AM

bones in the human body are easy, but we aren't given a human skeleton in mammalogy. we have to ID bones in lagomorphs, felidae, and canis. gets a lot tougher when you have to be able to pick them out in different critters. especially all the freakin bones in the skull

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9/13/2006 2:18:53 PM

I bought a human skull on eBay
They are very expensive, like $250, even without a full set of teeth or any hardware
I bet a decent skeleton with hardware would be like $5k

9/13/2006 4:12:58 PM

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"^ did you learn all the actual names? or just the generic names? could you ID any single bone given too you? protrudences? features? attachment points?"

MIDDLE SCHOOL.

We had to learn the actual names of the bones, but we didn't have to know each and every tiny little bone (just the group name). Clavicle, scapula, humerus, radius, ulna, carpal, metacarpal, phalanges, etc. Instead of going into detail like the scaphilod, capitale, lunate, triquetral...

Simply learning every bone in the body is just a matter of memorization. Purchasing a skeleton to get it done just seem over the top.

9/13/2006 6:50:45 PM

If you think this thread is creepy, ask a Catholic what "relics" are..

9/13/2006 8:35:44 PM

^^ well the skeleton itself isnt too bad...its the skull. we have to know 40+ bones that make it up and its really hard to look at a picture and be able to tell exactly what it looks llike...

9/13/2006 9:58:28 PM

3-d models are abundant online, free and commercial, depending on the accuracy. should still be cheaper than a model skeleton and denenitely would not come with the same freak factor as a full size skeleton sittin in the middle of your room. the only thing the more accurate one will require access to some sort of 3d software. hell i think i got a pretty detailed skull model sittin somewhere in my computer, i would have to check

9/14/2006 12:44:41 AM

got an entire folder on anatomy.. pretty detailed but the skull is not separated into individual bones (except for jaw and teeth). all of them .3ds files

9/14/2006 1:07:24 AM

unless powell is going to give us a human skeleton you really need to be looking for dog or cat models to help you out. maybe go trap a rabbit, i mean we have to prepare a skin and skull anyways

9/14/2006 1:35:05 AM

i ordered the small dog skull from this website for a class and it's very nice and wasn't too expensive:
http://www.skullsunlimited.com/

9/14/2006 7:29:35 AM

holy fuck talk about finding a market niche

9/15/2006 12:17:09 AM

i really wanted to buy a horse skull, but my apartment is too small to start collecting large ungulate body parts

9/15/2006 8:16:52 PM

i've got a big bone collection


you can't come bust up my skulls though

9/16/2006 11:31:40 AM