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Found this when a septic tank was pumped. I have no clue what kind of animal it is, but the pics are of various angles of the larger bones found. One is the skull, unsure of the other. The blurry pic is of the bottom of the skull. I'm not even sure what the other bone might be. I'd love to find out what it is though. Any help would be appreciated. Also unsure of the general category...

8 Comments

lizardking
lizardking 4 years ago

First photo is the sternum, second is the pelvis

Osteobyte
Osteobyte 7 years ago

Try turkey.

EmilyMarino
EmilyMarino 8 years ago

HarleyWilliamson this is the pelvis and keel bone of a bird. It will be very hard to narrow down the species.

sarahaw1981
sarahaw1981 9 years ago

Sorry just realised that link didn't go anywhere! Please try this one as it has a good image of the bird skeletal structure :-)
http://www.biologycorner.com/worksheets/...

sarahaw1981
sarahaw1981 9 years ago

It looks like a bird diaphragm to me, hard to say chicken or duck! I'm not that good :-) but do checkout this like as it shows an example of some bird bone structures! Hope it helps

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physiolog...

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HarleyWilliamson
HarleyWilliamson 9 years ago

Thank you, changed it.

JoshuaGSmith
JoshuaGSmith 9 years ago

I bet this is a mammal, so you could probably change it to that.

HarleyWilliamson
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HarleyWilliamson

Conway, South Carolina, USA

Spotted on Mar 18, 2015
Submitted on Mar 18, 2015

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