allowing flexibility but preventing twisting of the vertebral column. In fish, the occipital processes (occipital condyle) on the back of the skull looks like the end of a typical amphicoelus centrum.

The vertebral column comprises individual vertebral bones ... Your spine runs from the base of the skull down to your tailbone. Its sections are called the cervical spine, the thoracic spine ...

There are 23 disks in the spinal column, running from the base of the skull to the tailbone. Each disk is made up of two ...

Three construction teams, each with their own blueprint One type of precursor cell forms the skull and facial bones, another the spinal column and ribs, and a third type the skeleton of the limbs.