Excellent science communication! We all need to start doing this, when we see science (especially the topics in particular that we study) being used in this way.

*If you prefer not to use AI, you can critique images of halloween animal skeletons by searching the web (e.g., "X Halloween skeleton" where X is the name of the animal). Common Halloween skeleton toys for teleosts are piranhas and anglerfish. For tetrapods, there are many options.

Describe three errors in each skeleton (totaling six errors) and explain what changes you could make to correct the errors. For each skeleton, one example should be from the cranial skeleton, one should be from the axial skeleton, and one should be from the appendicular skeleton.

from their Sarcopterygian ancestors and Teleosts remaining in the water like their Actinopterygian ancestors." Your assignment is to generate diagrams of skeletons using any AI image generator of your choosing*, one of a teleost and one of a tetrapod.

Bluesky search is awful, so I can't find my nicely edited post, so here is the full prompt: "The two most successful living vertebrate groups, in terms of number of species, are Tetrapods (30,000+ species) and Teleosts (33,000+ species), with Tetrapods transitioning to land...