This week I have another skull for you to identify. Any idea what animal this might belong to?
As usual, I will do my best to respond to any questions or comments that you leave below. Good luck!
Zygoma
Adventures in natural history collections
This week I have another skull for you to identify. Any idea what animal this might belong to?
As usual, I will do my best to respond to any questions or comments that you leave below. Good luck!
Zygoma 
Looks very easy so I won’t say what I think because it’ll be harder than that but definitely a kind of –g—r–h
😉
Young hare ? Not sure what type.
I see pearly white teeth, a face that looks like lace, and skin that can be velveteen! Also the little pegs just at the front of the palatte let me know that it’s my favorite animal! I have 3 wee ones in my home, fortunately all neutered & spayed or else I’d quickly be up to my ears with them…
Actually, I rather doubt that you do have any of these critters!
Oh man. 😦 Back to the drawing board!
I think that this little one is quite noisy compared with its relatives.
Sorry this is my son’s computer…Barbara
O……. m….
Nope!
I even have to do this when I am on holiday!
Me too! 😉
Characteristic incisors. A boxer, perhaps?
Oh, and a juvenile.
L.c.
There are an awful lot of L. c.s out there… but this isn’t one!
Hmm, true, more L.c’s than I noticed at first. In that case, an L. something?
It is an L. something, so you’re not far off.
4 incisors, and a diastema, so not a rodent, but perhaps something that could be confused for one. Its been sectioned, so we can’t see the base of the skull, which is awkward (but probably why you chose it). Someone’s sliced through the top too.
Could it be an Ochotonid?
No, sadly not.
In that case a juvenile L. summat-or-other. The adult skulls I’ve seen are all rather too long (and large).
G’day mate!
I think it’s definitely something hoppy…
Carlos.
Maybe a little hoppy, but perhaps not as much as you’re thinking cobber…
But it’s so small!
Rodent-like, possibly marsupial. Is it v___b_t_s?
Scratch that.Too few teeth.
Good call!
Well, it is March…
(And a young one, I take it).
It seems like March is zooming past at high speed!
For what it’s worth, I’m guessing the brown one. But that’s really just a guess.
I was going in the completely wrong direction until the comments gave me the right leverage.
Nice 😉
London tube monkey rat (pithecus rodentus)
There are plenty of those around!
Nonfused interparietal bone is a diagnostic for B………. i………?