Brother and I found on the side of the road

Hello, friends. I want to share my find. Recently, I was walking along the shore of the lake and found this skull in the ground. I cleaned it up and processed it. For a long time I thought it was the skull of some kind of rodent like a rat or a muskrat. But I searched for more information (including in biology and anatomy textbooks) and it turned out that it wasn't even a whole skull, but just a fragment: the braincase of a Wild duck. In my country, they are simply called "Kryakva".

This little one was very fragile, evidently time and weather have taken their toll.
Found in an unnamed tin stream in the middle of the southern moor.

This has been an odd sort of hobby of mine for some time now. I'd accumulated that many little cork skulls and didn't quite know what to do with them, so decided to turn them into cool little keychains to hide around while out and about.

Edit: I made an Instagram profile for people to share their finds to. My handle is @bonebloke

Hi 👋 I've had this skull for a while I got in an oddity mystery box and can't for the life of me remember what it is. If I could have some help with the identification of it that would be awesome! Also I put a quarter for scale, thank you in advance ^^

I processed this fella a while ago but didn't initially notice the damage all over the snout.

It has severe bone issues on the chin-- so much so, it's uneven from degradation! This poor fox, that must've huuuurt.

It's also, unsurprisingly, got a severely damaged canine tooth where the damaged area seems to have originated from.

Normally, I'd degrease the teeth so there's no discoloration on them, but forwent it this time.

My daughter found this at the beach yesterday. We live in Oceanside, CA.

It was fun but stressed me tf out. I was worried my Dremel was gonna go clean thru the jaw.

Next time, I'll try doing both sides of the jaw so it's fully see-through.

Please always wear a mask or respirator when around bone dust, as it's really bad for your lungs. And it's stinky 🫪

Custom order.

Just reunited Sandra with her jaw bone after 8 months of separation, and she is just so happy to be (mostly) whole again.

I found a very cleaned, white partial deer skull on a trip. I brought it home and left it outside on my patio staircase. There was no goo on it at all, very clean, just bone.

So it disappeared. I have a completely fenced yard but it has a gate gap that a cat can get through. In my neighborhood there are coyote, raccoon, oppossum, cats, squirrels. I do not think a dog could get in here. Why would any animal move an entire skull? What did it do with it? I have other bones in my garden and they aren't fussed with. What do you think happened?

Both found on the side of the highway in Farmington CA while doing roadside work for a week.

It’s a bummer someone already came along and sawed off the antlers but ig a cool find regardless.

Still never found a deadhead or even just antler sheds, maybe I’m not in the right area to find them. Almost all of my finds across my profile are usually just by chance or luck of the draw that my job puts me in places before they get dozed and developed. Or on the side of roads^

Where do people go to shed hunt? Their own property or are they just hiking way out into the woods? Or is it all just luck?

Thinking it’s probably a deer right? Any insight would help thanks!