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Monitors are such awesome lizards, and these are great shots of them, too!
The number of carnassials on an ermine mandible is four (the farthest back can look like two to three, I can understand the mistake), with normally two to three incisors on most carnivores I've seen, and of course, one canine. What leads me to believe this is an ermine is the overall size and lack of a sagittal crest (For those who don't know, a sagittal crest is the area where the jaw muscles attach at the top of the head on part of the skull that looks like a "crest". The bigger the crest, the stronger the muscles). Either way, this is quite the mystery.
I'm fairly certain it's the Chinese softshell, but, I'm not familiar with the entire variety of softshell turtles. It is indeed a softshell turtle, as they have the "pointed" nose, more flipper like back feet, and a flat shell, but as to the exact species, I'm not quite sure.
Quite a cool find, they're interesting turtles!
I collect a lot of wildlife skulls (and other assorted bones) that I find in the woods, and I am 95% sure that it's a raccoon skull. A possum was a close guess, but the shorter nose and wider zygomatic arches lead me to think it's a raccoon. I could be wrong, however.
Never heard of this before, very cool!
Hmm, good information to know. As for species, I'm not entirely sure, but it seems to resemble a bullfrog (rana catesbeiana), as it still has the same color pattern as the tadpole, and even as a mutation, it seems rather too large to be a green frog tadpole.
