15 Pictures Illustrating What People Would Look Like If They Had Skeletons of Various Animals

    Satoshi Kawasaki is a very imaginative Japanese artist. He has created a series of intriguing drawings. In them, he showed what would happen if people had animal skeletons.

    15 Pictures Illustrating What People Would Look Like If They Had Skeletons of Various Animals
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    #1 Ancestors of Horses Had Three Toes on Each Leg

    In the process of evolution, they evolved into one - the hoof. This allowed animals to run away from predators faster and to move more easily

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    #2 Penguin Skeleton Superimposed on Human

    Penguins are the only birds that maintain an upright body posture.

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    #3 A Human Arm with Bird Wings and Bats

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    #4 A Lesson in What Some Animals Have Feet and Knees

    Man Dog Horse Flamingo

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    #5 A Human-Bird Hybrid (harpy)

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    #6 Here's What Would Happen If Humans Had Chests Like Pigeons

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    #7 When a Human Becomes a Rabbit

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    #8 An Elephant's Foot has Five Toes on the Front and one Extra Toe on the Back (called a mandible)

    Camels have legs ending in two toes. They also have a special thickening (pad) that helps them walk.

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    #9 The Flamingos Sleep Standing on One Leg

    This activity does not require them to expend energy or exert muscle effort.

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    #10 A Simulation of What Would Happen if Humans Swapped Upper Limbs with Other Animals

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    #11 A Giraffe's Neck Can be as Long as 6.5 Foot

    It consists of 7 vertebrae, but each vertebra is about 11inch long

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    #12 When Heated, Clam Shells Open

    This is all due to a muscle that relaxes when exposed to heat.

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    #13 A Hippo's Snout Opens 180 Degrees and Its Lower Tusks Grow Up to 19.20inch Long

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    #14 In Turtles, the Carapace is Formed from Ribs and Vertebrae. The shell Consists of Around 50 Interconnected Bones

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    #15 The Difference Between the Toes of a Human and a Bat

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