To have or not to have ribs (a vertebrate story)

Tuesday, April 27, 2010 - 10:21 in Biology & Nature

Like all vertebrates, snakes, mice and humans have in common a skeleton made of segments, the vertebrae. But a snake has between 200-400 ribs extending from all vertebrae, from the neck to the...

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