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The skull, with intact teeth in jaw, vertebrae, and other bones from what appeared to be a young moose. Confirmation? There was also gray fur found not far away.
On a small wooded island in the Boundary Waters Canoe Wilderness Area in northeastern Minnesota
Spotted on May 22, 2012
Submitted on Jun 20, 2012
4 Comments
Hi Fiana,
It's a pelvis, sacrum and mandible of a cervid (deer family). It's hard to say which species from the pictures, given there is no indication of size. But it's not a juvenile animal, since all adult teeth have completely erupted.
Emily: yeah, it does look like that, doesn't it...I thought at the time that was the top of the head...I thought there was a jaw on it...but now it does look like a pelvic bone... clearly I didn't look long and hard enough. We moved the bones around, so it's not how they were initially laid out
interesting series
Interesting Spotting! It looks like you have a pelvis resting on the mandible of some sort of cervidea. Interesting find! Please consider adding this to the "Identifying animals through osteology" mission! http://www.projectnoah.org/missions/8475...