The Skeletal System: It's ALIVE! - CrashCourse Biology #30
Hank introduces us to the framework of our bodies, our skeleton, which apart from being the support and protection for all our fleshy parts, is involved in many other vital processes that help...
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This, my friends, is a walrus baculum it's basically a penis bone found in most placental mammals. Interestingly, not in humans. And this is a polar bear skull, which as you can see is more streamlined for swimming in the water than a grizzly bear skull. And over here we have my giant friend, the rhino head, which is good for being giant, for fighting off predators and fighting for- I don't know, why do rhinos have big heads? And this is the skull of a pronghorn antelope. It has these horns that come off, that are covered in these keratin sheaths that fall off once a year. These are all bones. Parts of skeletons. And they're all pretty freaking awesome. And I am surrounded by them here at the Philip L. Wright Zoological Museum, at the ...
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This, my friends, is a walrus baculum it's basically a penis bone found in most placental mammals. Interestingly, not in humans. And this is a polar bear skull, which as you can see is more streamlined for swimming in the water than a grizzly bear skull. And over here we have my giant friend, the rhino head, which is good for being giant, for fighting off predators and fighting for- I don't know, why do rhinos have big heads? And this is the skull of a pronghorn antelope. It has these horns that come off, that are covered in these keratin sheaths that fall off once a year. These are all bones. Parts of skeletons. And they're all pretty freaking awesome. And I am surrounded by them here at the Philip L. Wright Zoological Museum, at the ...
