Gotta Love Skulls

[Johnsfolly]

I have mentioned on several threads previously that I really am fascinated with cleaned skulls. With the number of recent posts about European mounts for deer and other animals, I thought that I would post a photo of some of my skulls. The mouse skull I found in a burned field. The others below were purchased. From left to right; beaver, bat, otter, mouse, mink, and raccoon.

 I have a few other raccoon skulls and a whole and partial opossum skull that I have found while looking for shed antlers. I have had little success on sheds, but tend to find a fair number of bones, including ribs, vertebrae, pelvic bones, jaw bones, etc. I would love to have a fox, bobcat, and a bear skull. Would love to harvest them and clean the skulls, but I do keep my eye out for them at shows.

[Al Agnew]

I once traded a few prints for skulls from a paleontologist.  Got casts of a sabertooth cat, another catlike creature she called a dirk-tooth cat (the teeth were smaller than a sabertooth but larger than a regular cat), a dire wolf, and a Homo erectus.  Also got a bobcat, red fox, coyote, black bear, beaver, a partial otter, a fossilized muskrat, javelina, stone sheep, possum, several raccoons, skunk, a large red eared slider turtle, a longnose gar, a big alligator, and probably a couple more that I'm too lazy to get up off the couch and go look for them now   Oh, yeah...also got a bison, musk ox, and wildebeast.

[Foghorn]

Found an old steer skull with horns intact years ago while taking an empty train out to the Pea Ridge iron ore mine to load. Found some rope and made a hood ornament for the front of one of the lead motors. Thing made the trip back and forth for several trips to Jefferson Texas before it was removed. Kind of had the big "Caddy" look.