Comments on: Whose bone is this, anyway? http://scientificink.com/blog/2007/09/05/what-is-this-skull-anyway/ not particularly objective musings on odds and ends - Dunrie Greiling, Ann Arbor, MI 48105 Thu, 26 Aug 2010 22:15:25 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Dunrie http://scientificink.com/blog/2007/09/05/what-is-this-skull-anyway/comment-page-1/#comment-979 Dunrie Thu, 06 Sep 2007 12:52:57 +0000 http://scientificink.com/blog/?p=170#comment-979 From AnnaBess: I think it is actually an avian pelvic girdle - what you took for eye sockets would actually be where the femurs attach. However, with out really looking into it more I can't say for certain, but definitely not a cranium of any mammal or other creature I have seen. Where did you find it - the cabin? I would say a bobwhite quail or something like that would be my guess. AB From AnnaBess:

I think it is actually an avian pelvic girdle – what you took for eye sockets would actually be where the femurs attach. However, with out really looking into it more I can’t say for certain, but definitely not a cranium of any mammal or other creature I have seen. Where did you find it – the cabin? I would say a bobwhite quail or something like that would be my guess.

AB

]]> By: eric http://scientificink.com/blog/2007/09/05/what-is-this-skull-anyway/comment-page-1/#comment-977 eric Thu, 06 Sep 2007 11:02:39 +0000 http://scientificink.com/blog/?p=170#comment-977 I'm fascinated by and curious about the row of holes along the top and wonder what their function could be. I can't get a sense of the teeth of the creature (which might serve to help identify it more easily) because the forward part of the bone is difficult to make out clearly. For some reason, the shape makes me think of a weasel, but I don't even know if they're around these parts. I’m fascinated by and curious about the row of holes along the top and wonder what their function could be.

I can’t get a sense of the teeth of the creature (which might serve to help identify it more easily) because the forward part of the bone is difficult to make out clearly.

For some reason, the shape makes me think of a weasel, but I don’t even know if they’re around these parts.

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