by my house there is a patch of pines that i walk through every weekend and stump shoot. i call them the whispering pines as they are allways talking. seems like EVERY critter with in a 1/4 mile goes there to die and the souls talk with the trees. anyways, i find a TON of odd bones. i would guess this is a yound skunk or oppossum????
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I am guessing racoon.
son of a..... didn't think of that but i bet your right!
I guess possum. :confused:
A Badger?
Not a possum.
Looks like a juvenile oppossum. Teeth don't look fully erupted hence juvenile. Tuf to say for sure from pics, but looks like too many teeth and too many sharp cusps for raccoon.
Bone structure is close to a possum.
Toy poodle?
Not a Racoon to many teeth in the front. Look here and see what you think.
possum (http://www.skullsunlimited.com/record_variant.php?id=4379)
Skulls of all kinds (http://www.skullsunlimited.com/record_collection.php?id=23)
Itty Bitty T-Rex! Yea... That's It!
... mike ... :p ...
Looks to be from a possum because of the narrowness.
Cuppakabre?
Mikey took mine!
Bigfoot!
At least a very small Bigfoot anyway.
Whatever animal it is, it is certainly going to die without it`s lower jaw.
QuoteOriginally posted by Bonebuster:
Whatever animal it is, it is certainly going to die without it`s lower jaw.
How is that one should respnd to this :biglaugh:
:knothead: :banghead: :biglaugh: :laughing:
Looking through my skull book,I think the possum guess would have to be it and adolescent seems to make sense too.Now,any experts on possum aging?
teeth aren't sharp enough for a possum. I'm thinking a ferret or weasel??
Virgina Opossum (Didelphis virginiana), dental formula matches. And opossum are the only mammals running around those parts with that many teeth in their head.
Looks like a fox I just put together...if I had to bet my money thats what I would say. I'll look harder after the two fox in my beetle tank are clean in the morningl
Its not a possum the tooth structure is off. Unless it was very far from developing.
you would be AMAZED at the amount of bones and skulls scattered in that little patch of woods. i think it is to big for a weasel and to long and rounded. from all the teeth still intact i would think that it was young.
I am the local possum expert around here :biglaugh: , I think it is a fox, looks to be about the same size too, they are small critters. But it is really hard to tell without the top half?
www.skullsite.co.uk/Fox/fox.htm (http://www.skullsite.co.uk/Fox/fox.htm)
wild guess a skunk?
Id say its a skunk there heads arent very big under all that fur
It's the last guy that went hunt'n with Adkken!!! :jumper:
racoon
Saw this on CSI Arkansas. Place in pan of water and bring to a slow boil. Then taste the broth and see what it is.
Opossum dental formula. Upper: 5.1.3.4, lower: 4.1.3.4
It's an opossum. Check the lower jaw dental formula. 4 incisors per side, 1 canine per side, 3 premolars per side and four molars per side.
Opossums have 50 teeth in their head (as they are fairly primitive...marsupials) ...most mammals (eutherians..placental mammals) have 44 max (many have less).
Maybe...just maybe...it's the jawbone of a tiny donkey which a tiny Samson used to kill an entire tiny Philistine army....or not. :rolleyes: :knothead:
Ooh, that's GOOD!
:laughing:
Killdeer~ I haven't the foggiest notion. Sure looks small, next to that nock.
could it be a young marten?