Kairo (@Kairo_Anatomika) / X

Kairo

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Kairo

@Kairo_Anatomika

I ❤ anatomy, pathology, teratology and I have so many goddamn questions

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Joined December 2022

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Kairo
@Kairo_Anatomika
Jan 16, 2024
Some new followers came in in the past few days. .....I have a few thoughts. 1. WELCOME! 2. I dissect animals for a living. You WILL see photos of animal dissections if you choose to follow me. So..... yeah.....follow or unfollow accordingly. I dissected this lizard.
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Kairo
@Kairo_Anatomika
Feb 20, 2024
Is anyone else really frustrated by the ineffectiveness of marine scavengers....? 🧵
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Kairo
@Kairo_Anatomika
Jan 8, 2024
Many years ago, when I was a student, I was helping the lab clean out their freezer when I came upon a bloodsoaked package wrapped in plastic. No one knew where it came from or how long it had been there.....🧵
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Kairo
@Kairo_Anatomika
Jan 15, 2024
I talk a lot about teratology, the study of deformities. But I mostly talk about deformities in animals. The plants have deformities too. This one’s called fasciation...🧵
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Kairo
@Kairo_Anatomika
Apr 14, 2025
About 10 years ago I was working for a gaming company doing creature design. After work, I would go home and dissect animals in my garage. I borrowed a tiger carcass from a local taxidermist. I wanted to understand how the jaw muscles worked, so I stop motion animated it.
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Kairo
@Kairo_Anatomika
Feb 22, 2024
So...Mammals normally store fat under the skin in an even layer, but camels evolved to pile fat in one spot, so the rest of their bodies can stay cool in the desert. Why don't other desert animals do this? Well, they do.... but for some reason, we never talk about them.....
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Kairo
@Kairo_Anatomika
Feb 9, 2024
This is a skin condition called Figurate Erythema on a Sphynx cat. It’s been seen in 11 Sphynx cats in Eastern Europe. It seems to come and go on its own. Treating it has no consistent effect. In a few cases, it's itchy, but in mostly it doesn’t seem to bother the cat.
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Kairo
@Kairo_Anatomika
Jan 9, 2024
This is the inside of a sea turtle's mouth. This pic shows up on Reddit and Buzzfeed all the time. Everybody talks about how weird and creepy cool it is....but no one ever seems to mention what it's FOR......🧵
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Kairo
@Kairo_Anatomika
Jan 22, 2024
I learned today that oyster mushrooms from those mushroom growing kits are super aggressive and can infest your house. I wanted to buy one for my dad but I'm glad I didn't. The dangers of mushroom infestation never even crossed my mind. VIA FB: Kimberly Crowninshield
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Kairo
@Kairo_Anatomika
Feb 14, 2024
Did you know that the black and white checker board pattern is a masonic symbol? I give you these Illuminati Pigeons
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Kairo
@Kairo_Anatomika
Feb 21, 2024
I was riding my motorbike and I thought I saw a dead snake on the side of theroad. I generally don't pass up free stuff. Don't judge we're all human. Anyway, I stopped to collect my snake and it turned out to be a huge blue iridescent earthworm. It was not dead. It was the
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Kairo
@Kairo_Anatomika
Apr 16, 2024
This has been going around and it's an important cautionary tale. Turtle shells need sun light to grow. If they are painted or have stickers stuck on them, the part that is covered wont grow with the rest of the shell, so they end up with deformed shells.
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Kairo
@Kairo_Anatomika
Aug 11, 2023
This is probably THE weirdest snake deformity I've ever seen. This guy is from a breeder in the Netherlands. He was dead inside the egg. It gets me how everything looks perfect. The scales, and even the umbilical cord looks so normal. But..... not
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Kairo
@Kairo_Anatomika
Jan 15, 2024
So there's this artist named Xavi Bou that makes these time lapse photos of bird flight He takes photos of them continuously as they fly so a single bird looks like a trail as it moves across the sky. They're incredible photos, but there's another reason I find them cool 🧵
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