My genuine domestic cat skull arrived yesterday!!!
I have been after a domestic cat skull for ages. But they were always either bobcat skulls, replicas, vet teaching specimens (very dear) or in USA (but not shippable).
I did find one in the UK though and they have the small premolar behind the canine. Which domestic cats have but bobcats don't.
Original owner said they were from a feral cat colony. They were sold on to pay for her cats diabetic vet bills.
Just removing the hot glue from jaw today.
In the display cabinet with some fossils, rabbits skulls, claws and teeth.
Also an old dragon ornament, hag stone, sea glass, bunny ornaments, blown glass lizard, dolphin and seahorse. A mini bunny puzzle, Anubis on "gold" plinth and Tim Burton easter bunny figure.
Gemstones are blue topaz, raw sapphire, mangonite, a meteorite, raw yellow topaz and amber with insect inclusion.
Some of my fossils close up. They are Cave bear metapodial, two Spinosaur teeth, mosasaur tooth, and mosasaur teeth in jaw peice. There is also a plastic replica of a velociraptor claw (the other fossils are genuine though). I also have two ammonites out of shot (one with nacre).
I also have a guinea pig skull and a diaphonised fetal rabbit head on another shelf.
Here are three of my skulls. Guinea pig on left, then two rabbits. Also bunny teeth. Older photo on windowsill, so no cat skull at the time.
Diaphonised fetal rabbit head
@themarginalthinker kitty skull :3
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Shop Update: Dwarf Hotot rabbit skull!
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bonus facts: this specimen is sourced from the naturally deceased hotot skin, previously turned into a jackalope last October. It lost a few lower jaw teeth during cleaning, so I spruced it up with an organic patina
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Lunar New Year
Jackrabbit, rabbitbrush, and lacy fenestrations. Yes, I know it’s a hare and not technically a rabbit but it’s in the SPIRIT of the thing still surely.
And now for the 2023 self-promotion before I forget about it again for like a year: If you were a Patron, you could get this as a print in the mail! Print level patrons get quarterly 5x7 prints mailed to them!
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Did you know Rabbits (and other lagomorphs) have an extra set of teeth!
Rabbits have a pair of tiny incisors behind their top incisors.
These are called peg teeth or secondary maxillary teeth.
When the mouth is closed, the lower incisors slot between the upper incisors and the peg teeth. The teeth rub against each other, keeping both upper and lower incisors chisel-sharp.
Pictures below.
From having peg teeth to being the only mammals to have cranial kinesis. Bunny noses and having no paw pads (have hard hair on bottom of feet).
Rabbits (and lagomorpha) are just super weird.
Link to my post on bunny cranial kinesis below.
@lepurcinus
@synapsid-taxonomy
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I thank whoever brought this skull to the garden. He is safe now.
He will sit alongside the sheep skull i have.
(Ethically obtained, i just kinda... found him in the garden as if placed)
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Finally a complete Rabbit added to the collection
And what a fine specimen! I especially like the contrast of the dark teeth!
27/12/22
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