Assistant Professor of Biology Nick Gidmark mimics the stance of a rearing horse to demonstrate how the animal’s skeletal structure provides the support to enable it to strike at a forward threat or throw off a predator from its back. The horse skeleton is one of several reconstructions completed by students in Gidmark’s Comparative Vertebrate Anatomy course during fall 2020. Class members brought their projects to the new atrium in the Umbeck Science-Mathematics Center in November for an impromptu presentation. (It took a team of six students to transport the horse down the stairs.)