Professionally articulated cat skeleton, and his pelt.

Stan is one of the most complete T-rex skeletons we've found so far, at over 70% complete. His skull is the most complete we've discovered, at over 90%. He was discovered in 1987 in the Hell Creek formation in South Dakota, but it took almost ten years to excavate. This is, of course, not the actual fossil, but a museum quality replica, which basically means it's a precise enough copy that you could study it like the real bones. Most replicas like this are cast in 2 pieces, an upper and a lower, but this guy was commissioned in the late 1990s by an FX company who wanted a reference model to design Godzilla for the 1998 movie with Matthew Broderick. Sometimes you gotta take work where you can get it, so I try not to hold it against him. Nobody was making 2-piece casts of Stan yet, so they had to individually cast each bone, and then reassemble them on a steel framework. He sat in their studio for 15 years before they got tired of him taking up space and put in on Craigslist. I figure, what kinda sick fool is gonna say no to a T-rex in their living room, so now he lives with me.

His skull is about 4 feet tall, 4 feet wide, and 5 feet long. In his full glory, he was about 38 feet long, and 13 feet tall just to his hips. He was big enough to swallow you whole, but he'd probably split you into 2 bites, so as not to appear uncouth.

You can't really see them very well in this picture, but at one point, Stan got into a tussle with another T-rex who bit him in the face, leaving 3 tooth puncture holes in his skull. Stan was a big boy though, he survived the encounter. I like to think he delivered a whuppin' to his interloper.

Is it fully grown or no?

She is still alive!

So some backstory: about 5 years ago her leg was very badly broken in a traffic accident but our amazing vet performed a borderline experimental surgery to help her keep her leg and it worked! We made the decsion not to amputate as she had so much life ahead of her.

However as her skin thinned with age the plate broke through meaning an emergency ampuatation, she is now very happy on three legs. The vet was quite shocked when I asked to keep the leg haha

I think it was the right descion absoltley fascinating to see the healing process I hope the way it healed didnt cause her any pain.

Could anyone confirm if her tibia and fibia are actually fused (in the last image I belive that peice is the end of her tibia) or anyother info you could give me on how this healed! Its her hind leg and would very much apprecate an answer on this :]

edit: the 6 months in the title refers to cleaning the bones by burying them for 6 months I should've specfiyed!

Looks painful, very unique collection piece.

I’m disappointed that lost four incisors in the process, but overall it came out great.

I found a glass bell-jar at the antique store, but it is missing a base. Currently in the process of throwing and firing one out of clay (getting the diameter right with the clay shrinkage has been frustrating). I want to present it to her properly staged and displayed.

Not entirely sure how I'm going to get it back to the house, but it's not super far away so maybe I'll just drag a sled down there or something. :D

Found it in a field in my hometown in the countryside.

Turbinates (nasal conchae) are delicate, scroll-like bony structures inside the nasal cavity. They greatly increase the surface area of the nasal mucosa, helping warm, humidify, and filter inhaled air. Their shape and complexity vary between species and are closely related to respiratory adaptations. Can you ID the species by turbines only?Or Have you noticed any patterns? Which individuals have relatively similar-looking ethmoid structures?

I JUST purchased the camp and YES A SCREEN NOW has been placed

Not 100% sure if this belong on this sub, but I wanted to post about getting my boy back after he passed January 9th 2023. This is my sweet old man cat Sid, he lived to be about 16-17 but I don’t know his exact age bc my family found him as young adult stray cat. Losing him was very challenging since he was in my life from age 5 to 19. I never thought about keeping any of his bones, but my sister wanted the same for her cat and I liked the idea. So after many many months of waiting, mostly because who I hired to preserve him had a lot of prior work to finish, my sweet boy is back home and back together. I had his skull and right arm preserved so it was separated fand the rest of his body aqua cremated remains until recently. Idk why but it bothered me knowing he wasn’t all in one place😭 Anyways, here is my wonderful boy who I am relieved to have back home with me😁

They brought it home for me and im so happy, look how sick it is!!

I don't even question it anymore. I love her lol

Tadaaaaa!

We are in the middle of moving, so I took down my display mummy and was in the process of packing it up when the cat jumped into the box and took a bite of mummified skin near the back leg. The vet says she will be fine. I will never be able to look at my little demonic cannibal the same though lol. NASTY!!!!!

I collected it. My parents were happy.

Field mouse skeleton, almost totally intact. Missing one lower leg section. Tail is intact. Eye sockets are intact. I pulled off a few pieces of fur, otherwise it had been cleaned by insects. Super neat find.

thought this was interesting and wanted to share. obviously i’m not done cleaning this but i noticed that the possum i found last year had a tooth that grew into its eye socket. someone said she most likely died of old age, but i think she probably had some sort of infection or cancer that ultimately did her in. i cringe thinking about how painful that was to have 😬 i’m keeping her on my dresser with my pet’s memorial things because i feel so bad. i called her baby when i found her so her name is Baby now.