Reply to: Reproductive habits of pterodactyls

[Diver]

This kind of thing is probably quite common amongst athletes and the professions. I know anthropologists can tell whether someone in the middle age was an archer as, for example, one arm will have thicker bones. But I think you have to get into activities quite young for bones and tendons to change significantly.

a winker

[TimberWolf]

Fascinating. Why? This must be an adaptation to something. I like this kind of trivia.
On a similar note, my left tibia (the thicker bone in the lower leg) has an abnormal swelling at the origin of the Tibialis anterior (the muscle which raise the foot), as a consequence of running the bends on an athletic track in the days when I was a little lighter than now. Common among sprinters it seems, and I think they’re perhaps the only people to have this particular condition. It’s not debilitating, but quite visible from the outside.

This kind of thing is probably quite common amongst athletes and the professions. I know anthropologists can tell whether someone in the middle age was an archer as, for example, one arm will have thicker bones. But I think you have to get into activities quite young for bones and tendons to change significantly.

[EternalOptimist]

Just to see if AtW has an opinion on this.

Da, I zink ze vest shud declare a var on ptero



AtW

[AtW]

Of course I’m a freak, I’m a tester; I get paid to be a freak.

post on CUK.

[Moscow Mule]

MUTANT!

Burn him

Strictly speaking, it's not a mutation as he hasn't had it from birth.

Either way, burn him.

[Mich the Tester]

MUTANT!

Burn him

Shall I line up alongside the Irish, the blacks, the Asians, the Jews, the Romans, the socialists and all the other people cybertory doesn’t like?

[oracleslave]

FREAK!!!

MUTANT!

Burn him

[Mich the Tester]

FREAK!!!

Of course I’m a freak, I’m a tester; I get paid to be a freak.

[Moscow Mule]

Fascinating. Why? This must be an adaptation to something. I like this kind of trivia.
On a similar note, my left tibia (the thicker bone in the lower leg) has an abnormal swelling at the origin of the Tibialis anterior (the muscle which raise the foot), as a consequence of running the bends on an athletic track in the days when I was a little lighter than now. Common among sprinters it seems, and I think they’re perhaps the only people to have this particular condition. It’s not debilitating, but quite visible from the outside.

FREAK!!!

[Mich the Tester]

A bit off-topic but next time you visit a museum, take a look at a polar bears fibula (the thinnest of the two leg bones in their rear lower leg). They are remarkably thin.

Fascinating. Why? This must be an adaptation to something. I like this kind of trivia.
On a similar note, my left tibia (the thicker bone in the lower leg) has an abnormal swelling at the origin of the Tibialis anterior (the muscle which raise the foot), as a consequence of running the bends on an athletic track in the days when I was a little lighter than now. Common among sprinters it seems, and I think they’re perhaps the only people to have this particular condition. It’s not debilitating, but quite visible from the outside.

[TimberWolf]

A bit off-topic but next time you visit a museum, take a look at a polar bears fibula (the thinnest of the two leg bones in their rear lower leg). They are remarkably thin.

[Mich the Tester]

Thread failed. Sorry.

[DodgyAgent]

I've seen them in local Soviet provincial town's museum and have to say they must have had a lot of fun with all those bones

Mich you've failed

[AtW]

Just to see if AtW has an opinion on this.

I've seen them in local Soviet provincial town's museum and have to say they must have had a lot of fun with all those bones

[Bagpuss]

I don't agree that his lawyers will be writing to you