RttS: Centaur Skull and Head Anatomy
Added 2021-09-21 00:23:51 +0000 UTCOnce again I am super bad at being decisive about bone morphology. Some things of note, though: The jaw adductors are on the inside of the skull, kind of like the muscles that close the valves of a clam. They are capable of delivering a bite powerful enough to crack pretty much any bone that can comfortably fit inside their jaws. It's also a lot easier to see how the skull is arranged to handle the mechanical pressure of that bite without the lips and trunk and feathers obscuring its shape.
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Does this mean that Talita (and other centaurs) have dunkleosteus-style teeth plates? π³
Gertrude Schmidt
2021-10-11 03:38:02 +0000 UTCThis is so interesting, I wonder what centaurs thought of human anatomy when they first encountered eachother
Dr. Helarctos
2021-09-24 04:54:46 +0000 UTCI'm guessing Talita can make all kinds of phonemes that humans can't, right? Humans wouldn't be able to speak any of the Centaur languages without either some sort of pidgin or mechanical assistance or sign language (which I guess would be slightly easier for humans, given that we have an extra finger... but might also be harder, because Centaurs would probably include their trunk!)
Pavel Lishin
2021-09-21 14:28:11 +0000 UTCβ€οΈ
Simone Spinozzi
2021-09-21 08:39:38 +0000 UTCThatβs so cool!
Ash Greyed
2021-09-21 01:37:56 +0000 UTCTheir olfactory system is the same set of organs as their vocal system (trunk and head lungs). It was originally only for smelling, but later in the evolutionary tree got co-opted for making noises and then language.
Jay Eaton
2021-09-21 01:37:15 +0000 UTCSuper cool! Can centaurs smell? If they can, where would their scent receptors be?
Ash Greyed
2021-09-21 00:53:52 +0000 UTC
