Tortoise skeletons are the weirdest skeletons.
I never wondered what they looked like before. Wow. I literally just gasped. How neat!
Which is another reason you shouldn’t pick them up by their top shell
Everyone knows that you shouldn’t pick up a tortoise or turtle by their shell since their backbone is fused with it, but often it’s not really an easy thing to visualize how that works. Here’s a really cool image for that…
Almost NOBODY knows this, because people don’t bother to simply show you a fucking image like this in school so before i saw this on tumblr i thought a turtle was simply a loose animal in a shell like a snail
Note the fused ribcage that forms the lower half of the shell.
That is why I picture Space Marines as having flat but broad ribs rather than “a fused mass” as GW insists. They’d be about as agile as a tortoise with a fully fused ribcage, never mind that whole thing about the diaphragm and mammalian breathing vs reptilian breathing function….
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Jacky Tsai is a London-based artist that works in fashion design, illustration, installation and sculpture. See more of his work on Hi-Fructose.
Photograph by Steven Meisel; styled by Edward Enninful; W magazine September 2011.