Recently I was looking at some skeletal specimens in the Dead Zoo stores, to help with a research enquiry. I came across a drawer of unidentified bones and as you might have guessed, I was delighted. Over the next few weeks I’ll be sharing some of these to get your thoughts on identifications.
To get started, here’s a good one:
Any ideas what bone this is and what animal it’s from? You can leave your ideas in the comments section below.
Have fun!
Zygoma 
Ooooh-sick!! But is it ‘bear’ cool?
Can’t be as clever as Chris, so will play my usual game of trying to guess the clade, and so on. But not yet: let the crypticists have a go first. So, apart from the fact that they are right-handed, have been to Afghanistan, currently work as a haberdasher’s spool threader and have fallen on hard times, I got nothing.
Damn! That’s clever!
Sherlock! How did you do it?
That looks like a baculum. Big guy. Sea mammal? Is there any info on provenance?
the taper, the bend, the hilt…. my blood runs cold.
Yes, the hilt!