Animal Skull - What is it?
Apr 10th 2011 | 12:16 am
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Animal Skull - What is it?
Found this on the beach yesterday - any ideas what animal it came from?
Apr 10th 2011 | 12:41 am
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Re: Animal Skull - What is it?
Shame there is not an Iphone app for that one! - Maybe one day soon, eh?
Apr 10th 2011 | 1:09 am
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Re: Animal Skull - What is it?
You might not want to do beach combing for much longer
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...=feeds-newsxml
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...=feeds-newsxml
Apr 10th 2011 | 3:49 am
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Re: Animal Skull - What is it?
It's a sacrum.
Apr 10th 2011 | 6:02 am
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Apr 10th 2011 | 6:40 am
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Re: Animal Skull - What is it?
Agreed.
We think it's a [soon to be in the garbage] seagull's butt.
http://courses.washington.edu/chorda...ull_pelvis.jpg
We think it's a [soon to be in the garbage] seagull's butt.
http://courses.washington.edu/chorda...ull_pelvis.jpg
Apr 10th 2011 | 7:51 am
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Re: Animal Skull - What is it?
I could be wrong of course
but it those holes look like sacral foramina. If I'm right then the ilium and pubis are attached as you can see the acetabulum and the obturator foramen.Who knows, anyone want to boil up a rabbit and let us know the result?
Apr 10th 2011 | 8:47 am
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Re: Animal Skull - What is it?
(radiographer, moi)
I could be wrong of course but it those holes look like sacral foramina. If I'm right then the ilium and pubis are attached as you can see the acetabulum and the obturator foramen.
Who knows, anyone want to boil up a rabbit and let us know the result?
I could be wrong of course
but it those holes look like sacral foramina. If I'm right then the ilium and pubis are attached as you can see the acetabulum and the obturator foramen.Who knows, anyone want to boil up a rabbit and let us know the result?
It's an octopus arse bone: you can still see the liquid ink tank in the first photo.
Apr 10th 2011 | 1:37 pm
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Re: Animal Skull - What is it?
Bird pelvis. Seagull, very possibly.
http://www.google.ca/images?hl=en&q=...w=1259&bih=816
http://www.google.ca/images?hl=en&q=...w=1259&bih=816
Last edited by Alberta_Rose; Apr 10th 2011 at 1:39 pm.
Apr 10th 2011 | 5:09 pm
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Re: Animal Skull - What is it?
You might not want to do beach combing for much longer
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...=feeds-newsxml
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...=feeds-newsxml
Apr 10th 2011 | 6:25 pm
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Re: Animal Skull - What is it?
I thought it was a lamp? 
