Please help me ID this bone I found in my backyard!
I can’t help but be really creeped out by this. I found it sitting on the ladder in my backyard, placed there almost perfectly as if someone put it there. The ladder leads up to my deck and I went up expecting to see a dead animal but nothing was there. I don’t understand how it got there like that, it looks like a piece of a vertebra. It’s huge in size. I live in a northern American city and have only seen small animals like opossums, mice, squirrels, and cats in my area. That’s what’s scaring me the most, like is it just me or does that look like it could possibly be… something else. I don’t want to jump to conclusions because I would hope something like that is highly unlikely but the size and placement of it is really throwing me off. Can someone please shed some light?