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happy scaly new year!

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Czech Warmblood Foal Skull.

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Dry preparation of the skulls of domestic sheep. University Museum Utrecht. [x] [x]

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Cleaned another Red antler I'd got lying around and look at the difference!

We'll compare this to the 10 point on the shield!

31/01/23

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feeling fucking emotions about extinct animals right now. thylacines were an incredibly unique and remarkable animal. they were targeted for the deaths of sheep they didn’t kill. benjamin died from exposure when someone forgot to open the door to her indoor enclosure at night. imo dodos were the most fascinating pigeon there was. the last one watched the ships in the harbour and brooded a nest of eggs that would never hatch. ivory-billed woodpeckers were the size of crows and referred to as the lord god bird. the singer company and chicago mill and lumber co were greedy enough that they drove them to extinction. passenger pigeons were so plentiful that flocks of them could block out the sky for days. martha lived thirty years in a barren cage. carolina conures were the only parrot native to north america and one of the only poisonous birds in the world. rich people wanted feathers in their hats, so they killed every last one. the last one, incas, died in the same enclosure that martha died in. they were all preserved and mounted as taxidermy. the last of a species is called an endling.

#ugly crying rn bc this is such a fucked up world full of avoidable mistakes #why is so hard to have empathy for animals #why are people on earth CONTENT with doing these awful acts??? #why is it so hard to make people care about animals??? when we are animals ourselves???

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Capybara skull! Enormous and friend-shaped. This one is craft grade - flaky due to boiling, I think. I stabilized it with a few coats of watered down elmer's glue.

#i still want a full size one so bad #i love my baby capybara tho he’s so adorable #vulture culture #vc #skulls #bones

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one of the cats you've tanned (a gorgeous little black kitty not so long ago) shows the claws kept in. is it difficult to keep the claws in as part of the taxidermy when tanning? I know they're not like human fingernails, they're attached to both tendons *and* bone, but seeing as how both are removed, some part of me assumes they'd simply fall out as part of the fleshing process 🤔

nah, the claws stay on pretty tight and you don't really have to worry about it after skinning. when skinning the paws, to separate the claw from the rest of the toe and leave it intact with the pelt, you sever the joint between the distal and intermediate phalanx- the joint highlighted in red here:

so you are actually leaving in a little bit of bone which the claw is attached to, and the skin is tightly attached to that bone so it's not going to fall off or anything. there is very little tissue there other than the tendon and the fat in the pawpad at the bottom of that distal phalanx, but you can slice all that away and just have clean skin attached to a tiny bit of bone, so it all tans up just fine!

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Found a really neat bone at the creek the other day!

This is a jawbone from an opossum. It’s pretty weathered and worn but see all of those tiny round depressions and holes in the bone? They weren’t caused by the elements—those were made by a parasite while the animal was still alive!

This opossum was infected with the Besnoitia darlingi parasite. This parasite creates hundreds if not thousands of tiny cysts in the host animal’s body—in the organs, in the muscles, and even in the bone.

If you’ve followed me for a while you’ve probably seen me post about this particular pathology before because I already have a couple more complete opossum skulls in my collection which also show damage from the Besnoitia darlingi parasite.

This skull came from a dead opossum I found on my property many years ago. Its entire skeleton is pitted with these countless tiny holes—it’s one of the more severe cases I’ve ever seen.

By comparison, this skull displays a much milder case with only a few of the holes present.

Pretty gnarly stuff! I’m excited to have another example to add to my collection.

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They had so many wet preserved fish and reptiles at the museum, you could spend an entire day in that one room and still not have seen everything by the end. I especially loved the sharks, they were so neat

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New skulls!

I know what these are. Do you?

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I am though once again blown away by the generosity of the members of this community.

We got gifted a Grey Seal skull!

Look at the turbinates on this guy!

We were also gifted an atlas, and what I think are radius and humerus.

I can wait to compare it with the others!

23/12/22

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Specimens in jars PNGs

(source: Universiteits Museum Utrecht)

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Growth and decay 🌱💀

ID: coyote skull

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Biggest goat I've ever worked on! Those are 1 inch squares. Just a unit.

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