This Friday I thought I’d share a funky specimen that I had to identify earlier this week. Any idea what this is?
As usual you can put your thoughts below, preferably in a cryptic format so that other people can try their hand at an identification. Good luck!
Zygoma 
Is the anterior to the left of the photo and the posterior to the right, as usual… And the upper image is the dorsal view and the lower the ventral? The bone appears largely cartilaginous so I don’t believe the creature is terrestrial. A strikingly beautuful, almost alien looking skull.
That’s correct – anterior is left and upper is (perhaps counter-intuitively) dorsal.
It certainly is a beautiful object!
*i*h skull but very very big.
You should’ve seen the one that got away!
I would never be able to identify the species shown in this picture. I’d be lucky to get lower than infraclass! haha. Jake is correct, its definitely the skull from a *i*h. I’m sure its a t*****t *i*h…but thats it. Im out! No idea.
So far so good!
I could gad around for an pun for a while, but I wouldn’t want to mollycoddle anyone.
Groan.
I wonder if it may have wings that are edible to humans, and it enjoys winter sports on frozen lakes. Alternatively, did it have a Gerry Anderson TV series named after it in the 60s?
No wings or stings on this chap!
Chips & oil come to mind
They are never far from my mind…
Is it the piece of c*d that passeth all understanding?
Is this something I always want to eat morhua of? When eaten are they primarily from the Mare Aquilonis, as our Latin friends might say?
My last guess is just a very big fish. The same on my monkfish is maybe just 7 or 10cm long (haven’t checked)