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  • excavated at Dadart Uul of Mt. Songinokhairkhan. He was buried with a sheep scapula, a dagger with iron blade and wooden handle, a 65 cm (26 in) bark quiver...
    41 KB (5,687 words) - 06:49, 12 September 2024
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    scapulimancy has taken two major forms. In the first, "apyromantic", the scapula of an animal was simply examined after its slaughter. This form was widespread...
    24 KB (2,935 words) - 17:27, 23 October 2024
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    artiodactyls often have very slender legs. A clavicle is never present, and the scapula is very agile and swings back and forth for added mobility when running...
    65 KB (6,542 words) - 19:42, 10 November 2024
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    Oracle bones are pieces of ox scapula and turtle plastron which were used in pyromancy – a form of divination – during the Late Shang period (c. 1250 –...
    44 KB (6,090 words) - 01:56, 28 October 2024
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    years ago. The anatomy of the forelegs begins at the scapula. This is the shoulder where the scapula contributes to the movement of the limb. The next bone...
    27 KB (3,503 words) - 22:40, 11 August 2024
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    it is believed that Ötzi bled to death after the arrow shattered the scapula and damaged nerves and blood vessels before lodging near the lung. DNA...
    80 KB (8,301 words) - 22:06, 25 October 2024
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    Australian sheep blow fly (in fact an invasive species from South Africa) afflicts many sheep in Australia. In the late 19th century Merino sheep in Australia...
    160 KB (15,095 words) - 06:02, 24 October 2024
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    FOREQUARTERS Shoulders muscular and well attached. Shoulder blades oblique. Scapula-humerus angle is medium. Forearm straight, heavily boned and well muscled...
    17 KB (2,175 words) - 16:45, 6 March 2024
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    morphologic characteristics of the acromion, a bony projection from the scapula that curves over the shoulder joint. Hooked, curved, and laterally sloping...
    83 KB (10,188 words) - 00:53, 7 November 2024
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    no battle and beheld no enemy in battle array. The enemy purposely put sheep and cattle in front of the soldiers for them to seize, in order that they...
    53 KB (5,430 words) - 17:36, 14 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Late Shang
    The Shang kept cattle, sheep, pigs, dogs and horses. Many inscriptions describe sacrifices of large numbers of cattle, sheep, pigs and dogs, which were...
    103 KB (12,898 words) - 16:23, 20 September 2024
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    The other, Stegosaurus sulcatus, was named based on a left forelimb, scapula, left femur, several vertebrae, and several plates and dermal armor elements...
    101 KB (12,175 words) - 19:18, 13 November 2024
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    their postmortem attendants. It was also common for the Shang to sacrifice sheep cattle and pigs, which were offered to the River, Earth and Mountain Powers...
    97 KB (12,546 words) - 01:37, 12 November 2024
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    (four-limbed) animals, and may have functioned in stiffening the tail. The scapula (shoulder blade) was longer than the humerus (upper arm bone); its blade...
    84 KB (10,222 words) - 00:39, 20 September 2024
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    spalacotheriids and their relatives. They are characterized by features of the scapula, tibia, and humerus. †Spalacotheriidae - including Akidolestes, Zhangheotherium...
    76 KB (6,393 words) - 21:36, 28 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Cranial nerves
    the affected shoulder will not be able to shrug and the shoulder blade (scapula) will protrude into a winged position. Depending on the location of the...
    42 KB (4,693 words) - 04:00, 23 October 2024
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    presence of a depression on the posterior face of the scapula, which the latter lacks. The scapula of Brontosaurus also has a rounded extension off of its...
    95 KB (10,322 words) - 19:25, 14 November 2024
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    consists of the vertebral column complete from cervical 8 to caudal 20, right scapula-coracoid, complete pelvis, and both hind limbs without feet. It was mounted...
    90 KB (10,171 words) - 05:15, 5 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Anoplotherium
    didactyl ("two-toed") as opposed to tridactyl ("three-toed") digits. The scapula (or shoulder blade) has a convex coracoid border and is similar to that...
    127 KB (14,020 words) - 02:26, 3 November 2024
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    triangular scapula, the arm attaches to top of the scapula and the subspinous fossa (the fossa, a depression below the spine of the scapula) becomes bigger...
    94 KB (11,352 words) - 20:08, 16 October 2024
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