Photos from a recent session spent dissecting lionfish. These lionfish were brought in by local Bahamian fishermen for CEI's "You Slay We Pay" campaign.

Cat Dissection

The pelvic bones are split apart longitudinally by a section through the vertebral column and sacrum. A horizontal split of the sacrum shows its articulation with the ilium, the largest of the bones of the pelvis. Note the fibrous intervertebral discs each with a central gelatinous nucleus pulposus between the spool -- like bodies of the lower vertebrae. Behind these discs is the visible spinal canal carrying nerves of the spinal cord.

Photos from a recent session spent dissecting lionfish. These lionfish were brought in by local Bahamian fishermen for CEI's "You Slay We Pay" campaign.

Photos from a recent session spent dissecting lionfish. These lionfish were brought in by local Bahamian fishermen for CEI's "You Slay We Pay" campaign.

Photos from a recent session spent dissecting lionfish. These lionfish were brought in by local Bahamian fishermen for CEI's "You Slay We Pay" campaign.

A sardonically humorous dissection of the 007 phenomenon, with chapter titles like "Sit Down, 007," "No Woman Had Ever Held This Man," and "Beautiful Firm Breasts."

Photos from a recent session spent dissecting lionfish. These lionfish were brought in by local Bahamian fishermen for CEI's "You Slay We Pay" campaign.

This is my cane toad dissection. We normally have to do them in groups so I was pretty pleased to be able to do one on my own. I picked a good specimen who turned out to have some interesting bits. We were collecting a variety of data from them, including: sex, mass (g), SVL (Snout-to-Vent Length in mm), Snout-to-Urostyle Length (mm), Lung Parasites (presence and number), Stomach Contents (weight and type), Reproductive Organs (weight in g, including egg mass in females) and Fat Bodies (g).

Modern Biology 1956

Photos from a recent session spent dissecting lionfish. These lionfish were brought in by local Bahamian fishermen for CEI's "You Slay We Pay" campaign.

Sheep's heart, to be exact! The heart photo is from my wife's sheep heart dissection for her college Anatomy and Physiology class.

Photos from a recent session spent dissecting lionfish. These lionfish were brought in by local Bahamian fishermen for CEI's "You Slay We Pay" campaign.

Photos from a recent session spent dissecting lionfish. These lionfish were brought in by local Bahamian fishermen for CEI's "You Slay We Pay" campaign.

A disarticulated right elbow shows the three bones — the humerus, radius and ulna — as they articulate at the elbow to allow flexion and extension of the elbow and supination and pronation of the forearm.

Photos from a recent session spent dissecting lionfish. These lionfish were brought in by local Bahamian fishermen for CEI's "You Slay We Pay" campaign.

The ball and shallow socket shoulder joint is opened from behind. The smooth cartilage covered head of the arm bone (humerus) can be seen as it would fit the socket (glenoid) of the scapula deepened by its cartilage rim or labrum. Note the tough ligaments in the intact joint capsule at the front of the joint.

Photos from a recent session spent dissecting lionfish. These lionfish were brought in by local Bahamian fishermen for CEI's "You Slay We Pay" campaign.

Photos from a recent session spent dissecting lionfish. These lionfish were brought in by local Bahamian fishermen for CEI's "You Slay We Pay" campaign.

Photos from a recent session spent dissecting lionfish. These lionfish were brought in by local Bahamian fishermen for CEI's "You Slay We Pay" campaign.

Photos from a recent session spent dissecting lionfish. These lionfish were brought in by local Bahamian fishermen for CEI's "You Slay We Pay" campaign.

I scanned all the parts and I used photoshop to put them together.