Exploding snake brain 🐍🧠💥

3D Model

Brain, optic nerves, auditory nerves, eyes, inner ears, and vomeronasal organs of a blunt-head tree snake, Imantodes cenchoa. Model generated using diceCT scan of specimen UMMZ-246810 from the Division of Reptiles and Amphibians at the University of Michigan.

Segmentation by Jenna Crowe-Riddell and Jaimi Gray using VGStudio Max 3.3. Meshes further edited and cleaned in Blender (version 2.80.75).

This model accompanies Callahan and Crowe-Riddell et al. 2021, Ecology and Evolution, accessible here.

Davis Rabosky lab, University of Michigan

Image of Imantodes cenchoa by Consuelo Alarcón Rodríguez.

Exploded brain scene inspired by online tutorial by Jaimi Gray (oVert).