Mouse skeleton and part of a skull (the third skull I ever found, which is why I'm keeping it !) 🐭🦴

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🔥New paper out now in Journal of Human Evolution🔥

Grăunceanu (Romania) with an estimated age >1.95 Ma is not an archaeological site!

A new study by the MONREPOS Archaeological Research Centre (LEIZA), Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and Leiden University has refuted the evidence of human activity in the form of cut marks on animal bones.
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#Archaeology #Research #taphonomy #zooarchaeology #archeology #animalbones

Read now 👇
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0047248425001393?via%3Dihub

Opossum skull, one of my personal faves from my collection. Obtained from roadkill.


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Oh, fantastic! 🤦‍♂️ Just what the world was waiting for: a 13,000-piece collection of digitized animal bones. Because who wouldn't want to spend their weekend browsing virtual fossils instead of watching Netflix? 🦴📚
https://www.openculture.com/2024/03/openvertebrate-presents-a-massive-database-of-13000-3d-scans-of-vertebrate-specimens.html #digitalfossils #virtualcollection #animalbones #weekendfun #quirkycollections #HackerNews #ngated
OpenVertebrate Presents a Massive Database of 13,000 3D Scans of Vertebrate Specimens

From The Florida Museum of Natural History comes the openVertebrate project, a new initiative to 'provide free, digital 3D vertebrate anatomy models and data to researchers, educators, students and the public.' Introducing the new project (otherwise known as oVert), the museum writes:

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My shelf of fun little things.
#oddities #trinkets #animalbones #bones #knickknacks

Unboxing a tiny gift: a mouse's jaw bone nestled in black sand. A token regurgitated by the hooded crow (Corvus cornix) onto my windowsill. Carnivore: Part II

#CarnivoreSeries #BoneArt #DarkArt #MysticalAesthetic #ContemporaryArt #SculpturalArt #MacabreBeauty #NatureInspired #MysteryGift #ConceptualArt #ExperimentalArt #BoneCollector #DarkFantasyArt #bones #animalbones