Matt and I were discussing a paper from last year, Korneisel and Maddin (2025) on the evolution of the atlas–axis complex. (It’s excellent, by the way. Really comprehensive.) Mike: Atlases are so weird. It occurs to me that had the nomenclatural dice fallen differently, we might not even consider them vertebrae at all, just as […]
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