Do you take for granted the information delivered every day via touch? You couldn’t button a shirt or tie shoelaces without touch. You couldn’t hold an egg gently or grip a pen to write. You couldn’t tell which side of the tape is sticky. You couldn’t tell if the stove was hot (until your nose smelled burning skin, that is) and you couldn’t sense a sharp edge or a splinter to avoid injury. How would you tap or scroll your smartphone without? Touchscreens depend on, yes, touch

It’s time to go spanning the globe for anatomy news and notes! Walking Snake You read that right. Not talking snakes—walking snakes. According to an article in Science Daily, a fossil found in Argentina is helping scientists slither up on a better understanding of how snakes evolved. The specimen they found belongs to an ancient, rear-limbed snake that lived nearly 100 million years ago. The species was Najesh rionegrina and it revealed that early snakes held onto their h

Here at the Anatomy in Clay® Learning System headquarters, we tend to focus on the obvious structures and visible architecture of the...

Once again, it’s time for another round-up of all the anatomy news that’s fit to blog about! Mapping Cells Have you used Google Earth? As...