Thank you! Yeah I figured it was a fish just based on the look and feel of the bones, but I am also not very knowledgeable on fish. Appreciate the resource!
Having had a scout around my usual sites, and knowing this spotting was at a freshwater lake where there are fish, and from seeing these remains which are very distinctive and unusual in shape, I am thinking this is a type of broad-headed fish like a catfish, aka bullhead. There are several species of the genus Ameiurus in Texan freshwater rivers and lakes, so working on the basis that your spotting is a fish (and a jigsaw puzzle), I reckon this is a good place to do some researching. I'm not a fish person at all, so these skeletal remains look very foreign to me. Here's a handy reference for local freshwater fish - https://tpwd.texas.gov/landwater/water/a...
I've passed this on to a dear friend of mine who knows cool, nerdy things about bones, and she's well-connected (no pun). She might be able to steer us in the right direction.
Wow, this is a spectacular find and an awesome 'first' spotting. There are a number of missions you can add your spottings to, but an ideal one for this is Identifying Animals Through Osteology - https://www.projectnoah.org/missions/847...
Hello Katelyn6 and Welcome to the Project Noah community! We hope you like the website as much as we do. There are many aspects to the site and community. The best way to get started is to read the FAQs at http://www.projectnoah.org/faq where you can find all the tips, advice and "rules" of Project Noah. You, like the rest of the community, will be able to suggest IDs for species that you know (but that have not been identified), and make useful or encouraging comments on other users' spottings (and they on yours). There are also "missions" you can join and add spottings to. See http://www.projectnoah.org/missions . A mission you should join is the https://www.projectnoah.org/missions/219... to chose the "best wildlife photo of 2019",only the spottings added to that mission are eligible.Note that most missions are "local". Be sure not to add a spotting to a mission that was outside of mission boundaries or theme :) Each mission has a map you may consult showing its range. We also maintain a blog archive http://blog.projectnoah.org/ where we have posted previous articles from specialists from different geographical areas and categories of spottings, as well as wildlife "adventures". So enjoy yourself, share, communicate, learn. See you around :)
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Thank you! Yeah I figured it was a fish just based on the look and feel of the bones, but I am also not very knowledgeable on fish. Appreciate the resource!
Having had a scout around my usual sites, and knowing this spotting was at a freshwater lake where there are fish, and from seeing these remains which are very distinctive and unusual in shape, I am thinking this is a type of broad-headed fish like a catfish, aka bullhead. There are several species of the genus Ameiurus in Texan freshwater rivers and lakes, so working on the basis that your spotting is a fish (and a jigsaw puzzle), I reckon this is a good place to do some researching. I'm not a fish person at all, so these skeletal remains look very foreign to me. Here's a handy reference for local freshwater fish - https://tpwd.texas.gov/landwater/water/a...
Cool. Great spotting Katelyn and welcome to PN.
I've passed this on to a dear friend of mine who knows cool, nerdy things about bones, and she's well-connected (no pun). She might be able to steer us in the right direction.
Wow, this is a spectacular find and an awesome 'first' spotting. There are a number of missions you can add your spottings to, but an ideal one for this is Identifying Animals Through Osteology - https://www.projectnoah.org/missions/847...
Hello Katelyn6 and Welcome to the Project Noah community!
We hope you like the website as much as we do. There are many aspects to the site and community. The best way to get started is to read the FAQs at http://www.projectnoah.org/faq where you can find all the tips, advice and "rules" of Project Noah. You, like the rest of the community, will be able to suggest IDs for species that you know (but that have not been identified), and make useful or encouraging comments on other users' spottings (and they on yours).
There are also "missions" you can join and add spottings to. See http://www.projectnoah.org/missions . A mission you should join is the https://www.projectnoah.org/missions/219... to chose the "best wildlife photo of 2019",only the spottings added to that mission are eligible.Note that most missions are "local". Be sure not to add a spotting to a mission that was outside of mission boundaries or theme :) Each mission has a map you may consult showing its range. We also maintain a blog archive http://blog.projectnoah.org/ where we have posted previous articles from specialists from different geographical areas and categories of spottings, as well as wildlife "adventures".
So enjoy yourself, share, communicate, learn. See you around :)