#aznswer

[azpher-omega]

Floaty shoulders are attached by a muscular sling, perhaps there could be something like a back-sternum that they hang from?

Hmm, maybe! Their shoulderblades already come from an extension of their vertebrae (their topmost process?) which would really be the only place a 'sternum' would be able to come from evolutionarily (they have a whole history! Hope I can model it all someday 👀).

It's possible though, if it came from different vertebrae to where the shoulderblades came (which sounds more reasonable) or split from the shoulderblades (sounds odd but worth exploring, its previous connection vestigialised but maybe it didn't) either way though, unless its still connected to the vertebrae (in which having a bone straight through your body sounds inconvenient... if it broke that'd be so lethal on your innards) it would also be floating. Though, hmm. I suppose having a rib or two connect to it wouldn't reduce the room for the lungs too much.

Since I've only modelled the bones I'd imagine theres lots of opportunity for muscles/cartillage/etc supporting it by connecting to the ribs, maybe even the neck, since it still feels way too unprotected, so I might give it neck ribs, which could also support it, maybe.

It's a work in progress! Thanks for suggesting and making me think about it :]

#Definitely no expert on any of this #so I might be way off! #but thats the cool thing about doing it in 3d is I'm realising a lot about how actual bones n muscles work that I 'knew' but never really #understood properly #their shoulderblade I actually based off a birds keel #also just remembered the word scapula #if thats any indication I don't know much #uhm real tags #aznswer #ooh new tag #speculative evolution #speculative biology #spec bio #spec evo

[greenpaladinofnature-blog]

I post a serious question.... and im not sure if the aznswer i got was a troll or some bad joke.