so now i can focus on only one tank. A little over a year ago, I started with a mail order from montana of a hundred critters & now I have thousands plus a tank that needs cleaning. hopefully by end of october I will have my roadkill raccoon ready for de-meating

I’ve been cooped up for 3 months due to heat intolerance from medication I take. I was finally able to go out today and found a big whitetail antler. I’m surprised nothing chewed it up all summer.

Hi everyone - my puppers got into this skull this afternoon. This picture is the underside of the jaw (sorry I couldn't get a better one as I was trying to make sure I got it out of the yard). It looked like an Opossum but I wanted to check with the community here before I got and get her a rabies booster. Could it be a bat?

So I got some full skulls a week ago and cleaned as much off of it as possible. My problem now is that I don’t know where to dump all of the juice at. My backyard is small and I have close neighbors, my front yard is public and close neighbors. My outdoor drain is right next to my ac which has to run all day because of the heat… idk what to do. Help?

Hello! I found some small species of bird a while ago, say 2-3 months and wanted to preserve the wings so I snipped them off and froze them. I was wondering if the process for drying/pinning will still be the same? Just defrost, pin, borax? Or is there a different way I need to do things because they’ve been frozen for a while?

Thank you in advance

Really cool (and old! Circa 1910) Walrus skull was gifted to me a couple of weeks ago by a museum I work for. Come with full provenance as well as a fragment of tusk.

He’s not too long. maybe a foot or so in total.

In late September, I am going to get all four of my wisdom teeth removed (they are kinda coming in wonky and are causing me pain 💔)

I wanna see if I can get my hands on my own wisdom teeth (if the surgeon even lets me) and preserve/clean them to the best degree, how would I go about doing that in the first place?

It would be really neat to me to have them in a mini jar or something

Working on a common buzzard skeleton for my friend. Here are the feet.

One of the phalanges is missing, so we're replacing it with a small round bone fragment from a different bird, won't be very noticeable 😊

This is a question related to Dermestid beetle eating habits. Recently I found a butcher who sold me a bunch of bones from a cow he slaughter. The butcher's client didn't want any of the large bones which are typically EXCELLENT for stock and the marrow is supposed to be delectible (I'm vegan so that is not on my menu!)

In between skeleton cleanings I feed my colony these bones that I remove excess fat and dry over several days. Here's the point: these beetles are still munching parts of bones I fed them several months ago. In one photo you can see a small white pocked boney material a little bigger than a quarter. The larvae are still doing a number on it. I get that they will clean out the marrow but they seem to be doing a number on parts of the bone where I don't see any meat (clearly) and there doesn't seem to be any cartilage or tendons either. What up with that?

Made this to commemorate my first coyote taxidermy, it a scrap piece from the coyote in the same pose!

I plan to hang it in my car

Hello!

I live in AZ and the temps have been over 105° pretty much daily. I found this little guy completely intact in my backyard, and I'd really love to try and save his perfect lil skull. I had the thought to put it in a maceration bucket to try and finish off the remaining soft tissue, but I'm worried that it's mummified too far and the bones are too frail/dry and might disintegrate in the water?? I don't know if that's even a thing tbh I just don't want to ruin the skull because it's so incredibly intact it looks amazing. I'd really love to glue the skull to a pendant and resin it but I'm not sure if it's too brittle after the heat damage to even be able to withstand preservation attempts. Am I better off just leaving it mummified? Any advice is so appreciated!!

This little guy is so cute and so very soft! Furst time ordering an oddity like this on Etsy but I am very happy I did.

I noticed that the upper beak portion hinges above the nasal cavities. I don't believe it is supposed to naturally be like that, but it also seems incredibly uniform to be a break, down to the shape of the edges on both sides (photos 5,6,7). I'm just curious about that.

I plan to promptly return the skull to the woods I found it in since I live very close and I know I cannot keep it by law. It was just easier to examine it at home since I'm a curious mind and this is a super sweet find.

Michigan, USA

Was on a nature walk and found a fox and some sort of rodent maybe a mouse? Kept the fox skull but left the little guy who I cant quite identity.

I found this skull (it was partially buried in a hole); is it a jackal or a dog?