bone collecting

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I just found out about this community and as someone who loves collecting animal bones and whose hobby was to ID human bones on Reddit (I'm an anthropologist), I want to do my part to keep this community active.

Last year I decided to care for and clean the bones of a little mouse that passed away in my yard. It was actually my first time cleaning non human bones and a bit challenging because of how small they were. I took some pictures of them in the beginning of the cleaning process, there were still some soft tissues attached to them that kept some of the bones articulated.

I don't know why but I never tried to determine this mouse sex but I'm no expert in non human bones, if someone here has the knowledge please let me know what you think.

The jaw:

Still articulated vertebrates:

Partially articulated foot and leg:

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Male raccoon 🦝 (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by Slowy@lemmy.world to c/bonecollecting@lemmy.world
 
 

He is missing the nice canines and a few other teeth, but the nasal turbinates are intact :)

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Oops

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It’s legal :)

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