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Luna: Why me?
 
Twi: You have the darkest coat of anypony I know. Now hold still.

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@Poptard  
One solution I’ve seen is the upper half of the first few ribs fused into an extra shoulder socket. The flight mechanics are almost entirely magical, given how small their wings are and how slowly they flap in proportion. There’s not a whole lot of load on the wings’ muscle and bone structure.
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@adatron  
Yep. All vertebrae have two pairs of limbs, and in flying animals like birds or bats, their wings are actually modified legs, with the associated anatomical modification. With these pegasi with two pairs of legs and one pair of wings, they’d really have two front leg regions. So, it’s common for the anatomical depictions to just juxtapose actual bird bone structure over horse, which works I suppose.
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That reminds me of Arvak, the skeletal horse from Skyrim’s Dawnguard expansion.
 
Based Arvak, you don’t need to worry about running off a cliff with him because you can just summon him again.
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@SillyFilly  
Woah, wait, is the neck part accurate?  
Mechanically, I guess the difference in neck musculature between horses and humans that that image suggests makes sense, but I’d never really thought of it before.
 
That could explain a lot about some of my difficulties drawing certain poses in the past, if so.
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Basicially, all the parts serve the same purpose than in our legs, just that horses walk on their middle toe tip (with the other toes being nonexistent), and the parts are arranged/scaled differently to be able to do so.
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@OrionFOTL  
The part that Twilight is pointing at (which is the knee)?  
Or the part that sticks out back from the joint below, which is the hockbone?  
The hockbone is, together with the musculature that runs towards/around it, required for the back/downwars movement of the leg. You can compare it to the movement when you try to stand on your toes.