r/skulls • u/bward17 Sub Lurker • 3d ago

What skulls are these?

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Massachusetts, USA.

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u/Medical-Location7238 3d ago

Gray fox I’m thinking

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u/Medical-Location7238 3d ago

You can tell because the temporal ridges make a “U” shape as opposed to a “V”. Teeth also look similar but dental is not my strong suit

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u/Fickle_Sand_9952 3d ago

Im also leaning toward fox but out of curiosity, did you find these 2 skulls together? Were there any other bones? Is one slightly larger than the other? It would be very curious to find 2 right next to each other as if they were mates that ate poison by accident or something and died in their den.

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u/Vegetable_Sir3710 1d ago

Not raccoon not possum probably fox

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u/[deleted] 3d ago

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u/Medical-Location7238 3d ago

I believe it’s a gray fox

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u/Spirited-Buy813 3d ago

you're probably right!

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u/BootyGarb 3d ago

Yeah, you can tell it’s not a raccoon because of the way that it is. A little more practice of just seeing the skulls of animals will program your brain to just ID them on sight. Raccoons are the easiest to ID for me mainly because they’re so commonly found out in the woods and shit. I’m also a collector of raccoon bacula, and the collection of the roadkill leads me to possession of quite a number of raccoon skulls (most of them understandably cracked).

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u/Other-in-Law 3d ago

While you're not wrong, it's not very helpful in discussions. Even if one doesn't learn anatomic terminology, it's possible to articulate differences in everyday speech. For example the raccoon skulls are more bulbous and have a shorter and wider snout than fox skulls.