15 Pictures Illustrating What People Would Look Like If They Had Skeletons of Various Animals
6:43 AM EDT, April 10, 2022, updated: 6:07 PM EDT, April 10, 2022
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.
#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
#2 Penguin Skeleton Superimposed on Human
Penguins are the only birds that maintain an upright body posture.
#3 A Human Arm with Bird Wings and Bats
#4 A Lesson in What Some Animals Have Feet and Knees
Man Dog Horse Flamingo
#5 A Human-Bird Hybrid (harpy)
#6 Here's What Would Happen If Humans Had Chests Like Pigeons
#7 When a Human Becomes a Rabbit
#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.
#9 The Flamingos Sleep Standing on One Leg
This activity does not require them to expend energy or exert muscle effort.
#10 A Simulation of What Would Happen if Humans Swapped Upper Limbs with Other Animals
#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
#12 When Heated, Clam Shells Open
This is all due to a muscle that relaxes when exposed to heat.
#13 A Hippo's Snout Opens 180 Degrees and Its Lower Tusks Grow Up to 19.20inch Long
#14 In Turtles, the Carapace is Formed from Ribs and Vertebrae. The shell Consists of Around 50 Interconnected Bones
#15 The Difference Between the Toes of a Human and a Bat
Which graphic did you find most interesting?