r/BoneID

Hi! Had to make a new account to post this, been a reddit user for years now.

This is Bart. We are from Missouri. The Southwestern part of it.

A customer at my store, brought me a mummy.

She said she was tearing a barn down on her property, and found Bart in her barn.

She didn’t have any dogs go missing, didn’t have neighbors notify her of missing dogs, and never noticed an unidentified dog on her property. Not to say this rules out a dog getting into her barn.

She believed it to be coyote; I posted it in a Facebook group and it’s debated to be dog. I’m really on the fence, more than I ever have been.

More is pointing towards coyote for me, but some these folks got some great points!

The teeth are large, and not well worn in the back.

The nails not having a blunt edge or any evidence of trimming or being worn on concrete/flooring.

The remaining fur resembling coyote and the color of said fur on different parts of the body corresponding with common coyote fur colors/patterns. I do know fur gets “crispy” after death, but I’ve found hides and such out and about, and I personally have been able to identify the difference between raccoons, foxes, deer and cats in different stages of decomp. Texture, color, length. It just makes sense to my brain. Can’t really describe how.

And body shape says coyote to me. Really narrow, as well as the head is narrow. But again, that head shape is doggie to me!! The “stop” looks more defined that a usual smooth coyote nose bridge.

But I also don’t disagree he looks very dog like! I’m so back and forth on this guy!!

Everyone’s been very kind and informational on Facebook!! But I figured I’d see what some other folks would say here on Reddit!

Either way, I love Bart.

And I will honor and respect Bart in his afterlife. Dog, coyote, unicorn. Whatever he may be!!

And if he is a dog, I hope Bart being honored and loved again can send them a warm feeling some way or another.

Front teeth (jaw) is deformed looking for possible confirmation on its condition it had

found this while mowing, no idea what it is and im curious. I live in a suburb in middle Georgia, USA. no other bones around it that I could find

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DXU9v6Xkf1b

I'm sorry for the poor quality of these photos, as they are screenshots of an insta reel, which I have included a link to above. The screenshots I've chosen are of three separate bones shown in the video, but there appears to be more in the video that OP doesn't focus on for long as he's trying to show the whole area.

There are people debating whether these are animal bones that OP is using for clout chasing or real potential Epstein victims. OP claims they were found in close proximity to Zorro Ranch, and you can see in the video that some of the bones are still in clothing. OP claims the police will not investigate further due to the location being 'too remote'.

I'm sorry if this isn't allowed in this sub, but this is the only place, along with r/bonecollecting, that I can think of that has people actually qualified to assess these bones. I'm really hoping they're not human remains, but if they are people need to know so something can be done to reunite them with their loved ones and to be properly laid to rest.

I’m assuming it was unearthed because of the recent rain/flooding we’ve been getting all over Michigan. Photo taken with it next to my boot, which is a size 9

Found by my friends in Solymár, Hungary.

So I found this a year ago and just now got around to properly IDing it. I originally thought it was a beaver but now I’m not to sure. Granted the bones included are heavily damaged but they seem a little off for a beaver. They could of course be a juvenile.

My other thought was that it could be a nutria/coypu. This was found along Green Mountain Creek in the Ruby Mountains of Nevada. Nutria aren’t typically reported here, but they are invasive to certain parts of California. So a nutria might not be completely out of the question.

It doesn’t help that beaver and nutria also have the same dental formula.

Included in the pics are comparison of the skull in question with a beaver skull I found in Texas.

Found in the dirt adjacent to a canal. Looks old to me

If I put a cat skeleton in a bucket of water for a month (I changed the water once), will anything happen to the bones? Can they disintegrate or break?

Hello - just wondering if anyone knows what this skeleton / skull might be? I’m assuming a seabird but just looks like quite a big beak so curious what it might be.

Please Note that I don’t normally pick up dead animals on the beach, my dog had carried it over and was very proud of her discovery.

North Yorkshire UK beach.

Found in Missouri, USA

I have found bones around my apartment patio several times, I suspect opossums or fish crows

Are dropping them, neighbors are throwing stuff over the fence, stray cats/ dogs, hawks/vultures who knows: and one is actually across the street and probably got hit by a car (that would be the nearly complete Skelton) the other two were in almost the exact same spot near the fence between the house and behind the complexes. I live in the south , my guess for the jaw bone is opossum, my guess for the carcass is cat? And for the one I just found tonight that looks like a vertebrae ?! It can’t be it’s huge like maybe the size of my (F20s average build) fist. lol any help appreciated

Kiddo got it in a rock grab bag that included fossils, so location unknown. It is very light and hollow. I don't think it's fossilized, thus I'm posting here.

On the washington coast, in dunes near a beach. Fairly sure its a couger, but im not experienced in carcass identification, so i’d love an expert’s eye!

Edit: looks like people much more experienced than i are pointing towards seal or sea lion 😅 thanks for the correction yall! 😁