Tag: bones

scuba-sam:

I wanted to share a few snapshots of the process of my recent opossum skeletal articulations, and although I didn’t take a photo after every single step, I think these show just how much work went into them.
Photo 1: the bones as they arrived and all of them being sorted.
Photo 2: the skulls being put together
Photo 3: all of the bones after being whitened
Photo 4: the skeletons sorted and the (almost) finished pieces.
Photo 5: the finished skeletons!!

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vultureculturecoyote:

vultureculturecoyote:

So I went to check on a badger skeleton that’s been out in the local woods and it’s covered in SOMETHING IDFK worms or some shit it’s real bad.

This is just the worst thing.

So a few theories have surfaced as to what this could be! Some include:

Fast moving slime mold

I’m thinking this is unlikely. I’ve never heard of a mold that can move this fast. And the footage is not sped up.

Nematodes

I was thinking nematodes, but apparently they don’t move like this according to an entomology group.

A different species of maggot

I feel like they are way too small for this to be the case.

Annelid worms

Thats a wide group of species.

Grindal worms (like the ones fed to beta fish)

They do look a lot like these, or maybe a similar species.