A mystery of the animal kingdom: How do owls turn their heads
270 degrees without damaging their blood vessels? At last an
answer, published this week in Science , as the winning poster
in the 2012 International Science & Engineering Visualization
Challenge. Fabian de Kok-Mercado, of Howard Hughes Medical
Institute, and Philippe Gailloud, of the Johns Hopkins
University School of Medicine, dissected and X-rayed owls to
discover how the birds do the twist. Images courtesy of: Fabian
de Kok-Mercado Philippe Gailloud Michael Habib Tim Phelps Lydia
Gregg Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine; Archival:
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