This week I’m able to get back to my favourite type of object. Any idea of which species this skull comes from?
Hope you have fun with this one!
Friday mystery object #407
Zygoma
Adventures in natural history collections
This week I’m able to get back to my favourite type of object. Any idea of which species this skull comes from?
Hope you have fun with this one!
Zygoma 
Interesting bird, recently moved from a larger order to an order of its own it shares with one living, smaller relative, and the terror birds from the past
A seriema?
Can you get a Geococcyx velox (lesser roadrunner) skull, WvG? I could not find a single photo online, and just two scientific drawing. Their IUCN is LC, too.
So far I’ve never come across this species, and American species are very hard to get if they are not a hunted species or kept in captivity. I only have a greater roadrunner so far. But if I ever get a lesser, I’ll certainly put it on my website
Looks a lot like the skull of the bird that brings bad luck if seen on its own, and not in a pair.
Thanks WvG, i wanted to call it a vulture..
My what big eyebrows you have grandma…
All the better to See with my dear…
what a fright!
Vultures have a more raptorial beak, and Turkey Vultures have an open septum.
Okay – new to me, serieously. And red? Or black?
Bustard?
Well, it’s clearly a dinosaur skull. Neoaves to boot. I want it to be an ostrich but that bill precludes the possibility. A ratite though? Let me check the other responses…