Dinosaur airheads - Euoplocephalus - skull, brain, & air spaces - yaw

Skull of the ankylosaurian dinosaur Euoplocephalus tutus (AMNH FR 5405), revealing the brain and nasal cavity (Olfactory region in red, airway in yellow). Rendered from CT scans using Amira and QuickTime by Ryan Ridgely, and labeled by Jason Bourke. For more on Euoplocephalus and other dinosaur airheads, including PDFs of the 2008 Witmer & Ridgely article and a downloadable QuickTime version of this movie (http://bit.ly/bHgKvw), visit http://www.oucom.ohiou.edu/dbms-witmer/DinoSinuses_main.htm . For more content like this, visit http://www.ohio.edu/witmerlab and http://www.facebook.com/witmerlab

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• dinosaur
• CT scan
• ankylosaur
• Euplocephalus
• brain
• inner ear
• anatomy
• morphology
• respiration
• physiology
• smell
• olfaction
• paranasal sinus