So yesterday was exhausting, so that's my excuse for not posting. I literally just did homework for all of yesterday and a good chunk of today.
The biggest part of my day that I'm just going to talk about is my vertebrates class. So when I walked into class I saw this large white box. We've never had a big box, so I won't lie, I was really intrigued. So I sit down and we start the lesson. Halfway through talking about the hyloid apparatus in jaws, the teacher opens the box and starts pulling out skulls.
You read that right.
SKULLS.
It was so cool! I know I got to examine the wolverine skull the other day, but I thought it was just a one off. But nope! He pulled out a large array of different animal skulls to show us the distinct changes in certain bone structures. At first he pulled out an American Alligator skull (which was awesome and so big and there were still teeth there!) and then a salamander palate. But then he pulled out a coyote skull.
But here's the best part.
In the bottom of the box is a giant sea turtle skull and a baby sea turtle skull. I'm dying in the corner trying to stop grinning like a maniac, and then the teacher hands me the skull. I'm in heaven! It's so beautiful!
And what makes it even better: he asked the class about fenestrae in the skull. The exact topic that I focused on for my Senior Project final paper on the confusing evolutionary history of turtles. I raise my hand and answer the questions, and you can tell he's surprised because none of his graduate students knew this and his eyes are a little wide. He tells me I'm right and moves on with the class. I happily get to keep the skull in front of me since everyone has a skull. Then he let me take pictures of it!
Yeah, pretty sure my teacher thinks I'm weird, but who cares.
Turtles matter more to me than his opinion. If he thinks I'm weird he can deal with it.
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