Another brachy pup from the skull order, and something else that isn’t a pug :o! Its a West Highland Terrier puppy, who’s nickname is Goblin now since everyone keeps calling the poor guy that lol. (instagram)
The Earth is covered in corpses. We breathe the air the dead exude, eat the food they nourished with their decay, pour their remains into our cars, wear them and sleep on them. And then we call them scary without even noticing that they are present in every single thing of our lives. We live because of the dead.
Worst case of periodontal disease I’ve seen in person on a male German Spitz skull. I don’t know how his previous owners could have let things get this out of hand! Instagram
My last weird and awesome skull post was really popular, so I decided to do one about something else I’m excessively interested in: Megafauna! This isn’t at all a comprehensive list of the coolest ones, not by a long shot, so you should definitely look up some of the BBC docs on Youtube or google ones from your continent!
The cave bear! (N. America)
‘Hell Pigs’ (N. America) Actually entelodonts, unrelated to pigs at all and more closely tied to hippos and cetaceans! Dat sagittal crest amirite
The Stag Moose @allosauroid brought to my attention that this is the skull of the Irish elk, Megaloceros, not a stag moose! (Eurasia) Which stood 6 foot at the shoulder/withers
Platybelodon (widespread) Google artist renditions of these guys, you won’t be disappointed
Barbourofelis! (N. America) Like a smaller smilodon, with much cooler teeth. Look at those incisors!
Megatherium (S. America) Primitive sloths the size of elephants!
Titanus Walleri (N. America) Other continents had equally large if not larger ‘terror birds’
Paraceratherium (Eurasia) One of the largest terrestrial mammals we’ve ever discovered. It was actually a species of hornless rhino! Google artist recs of these guys, too
Diprotodon (Australia) The largest known marsupial, which was the size of a hippopotamus and stood 6 feet tall
I saved Glyptodon (S. America) for last, because these things have some of the weirdest skulls I’ve ever seen. They were technically armadillos, but reached the size of a Volkswagen Beetle!
the wide range of movement in a parrots upper mandible. typically, a birds upper beak isn’t movable and is fused to the cranium through bone and/or muscle. in parrots, the various bones that make up the upper palette and mandible have adapted to allow the beak to move alongside the lower jaw opening, as an adaption for manipulating objects and eating tougher foods.
this bird is a blue-crowned parakeet, who used to be a pet. their skeleton will be articulated for scientific and educational purposes.
This is a PREORDER for a resin replica cast from a real Tigon (male tiger x female lioness) skull. The cast will not have nasal turbinates. This is one of the only tigon skull casts available online, and I believe it is the largest at roughly 13″ x 9″. This skull has quite a lot going on:
It has very wide zygomatic arches with an elongated snout
RoboRoo! A large male kangaroo I’m working on has metal plates and screws in both of his forearms! I do not know whether these were to correct breaks or a deformity