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  2. American alligator - Wikipedia

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    The largest reported individual size was a male killed in 1890 by Edward McIlhenny [28] on Marsh Island, Louisiana, and reportedly measured at 5.84 m (19 ft 2 in) in length, but no voucher specimen was available, since the American alligator was left on a muddy bank after having been measured due to having been too massive to relocate. [26]

  3. Comparative anatomy - Wikipedia

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    Then he advises what sort of Apes to make the choice of, as most resembling a Man : And conclude "One ought to know the Structure of all the Bones either in a Humane Body or in an Apes ; 'tis best in both ; and then to go to the Anatomy of the Muscles." [7] Up until that point, Galen and his teachings had been the authority on human anatomy ...

  4. Wikipedia:WikiProject Palaeontology/Paleoart review/Archive ...

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    Here are three new size charts for the time being, and a REAL aetosaur (Aetosauroides), which is actually my first pseudosuchian size comparison. It's quite a bit smaller than the specimen's estimated length in the paper, but it is still within the size range provided, so I hope that's okay.

  5. File:Human skull side simplified (bones).svg - Wikipedia

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    Description: the adult skull is normally made up of 22 bones. Except for the mandible, all of the bones of the skull are joined together by sutures, semi-rigid articulations formed by bony ossification, the presence of Sharpey's fibres permitting a little flexibility

  6. List of bones of the human skeleton - Wikipedia

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    It is composed of 270 bones at the time of birth, [2] but later decreases to 206: 80 bones in the axial skeleton and 126 bones in the appendicular skeleton. 172 of 206 bones are part of a pair and the remaining 34 are unpaired. [3] Many small accessory bones, such as sesamoid bones, are not included in this.

  7. Human body found in the mouth of 14-foot Florida alligator - AOL

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    Human remains were spotted in the mouth of a 13-foot, 8.5-inch alligator on Friday, in a canal just north of the Florida Botanical Gardens in Largo. The gator was extracted from the water and ...

  8. Human skeleton - Wikipedia

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    The human pelvis exhibits greater sexual dimorphism than other bones, specifically in the size and shape of the pelvic cavity, ilia, greater sciatic notches, and the sub-pubic angle. The Phenice method is commonly used to determine the sex of an unidentified human skeleton by anthropologists with 96% to 100% accuracy in some populations.

  9. Alligator - Wikipedia

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    An alligator with an immobilized tail cannot perform a death roll. [32] Most of the muscle in an alligator's jaw evolved to bite and grip prey. The muscles that close the jaws are powerful, but the muscles for opening their jaws are weak. As a result, an adult human can hold an alligator's jaws shut bare-handed.