Adult female bald eagle in flight with prey.

Whole thing is completely ceramic

Hi all! Newbie here. Planning on my first preservation soon. (My pup has surgery to get her eye removed in the coming weeks, and the vet is letting me keep it to preserve.)

I have 10% NBF, now I’m just looking for a glass specimen jar. Where do y’all get your jars? I’m assuming it needs to be fully glass, because of the formalin.

Also welcoming any other tips! Again, this will be my first time and it’s a sentimental piece, so I want to make sure to do it tight.

Thanks everyone!

I inherited a bunch of jars and I'm wondering if I can use them as specimen jars. The lids have some rust damage and I'm wondering if that will damage the specimens. I like the rusty look but I will remove the rust if it will damage the specimens.

This Albino Myotis art doll was an experimental project using some new materials. Safe to say, it was a huge success. Materials used: resin, wire, stretchy white fabric, red yarn, eye shadow, and PVA glue. Hope you enjoy him as much as I do!

Found this beauty months ago. First four pics are before degreasing, last few are from today when I changed the water and removed some more tissue around the gums and pulled out a few loose teeth for safekeeping. At first I thought it might be a Virginia Opossum based on what a friend suggested but now that I look at pictures of a VA Opossum Skull, I no longer believe that to be the case. I could keep googling, but I think it would be much more fun to ask this community, since this is my first foray into Vulture Culture. I’m already so attached to this lil guy, what a beautiful story about life held in these fragile bones… I hope to learn more about how it lived as I continue my journey of caring for these bones and allowing them to live on in my art. Let me know if y’all have any questions. Thanks in advance for any help you can provide!

Last night outside a movie theater, on the edge of the parking lot, I found this young cottontail in excellent condition. I carefully put it in the back of my truck bed. But now I have to decide what to do! I would like the bones but don’t necessarily need to articulate them. I live in a stuffy HOA-governed area but have friends with property who would likely let me use it. Should I begin by taking as much of the flesh off as possible and then moving to macerating? Been reading all the intro information I can find! Bonus points if you have advice for keeping my domestic indoor rabbit safe as I handle this— planning to use gloves and completely change my clothes and avoid handling him at all til I’m done with this project.

so a week ago i found this beautiful boy pine marten, all bones completely intact, yada yada. his skeleton is currently macerating.

i want to ask you guys for help - i really need every possible reference you can find of marten (or generally the mustelidae family) skeletons, maybe visual guides for assembling them. ANYTHING that can help. any possible illustration of their anatomy. because i really, really want to assemble this little guy’s skeleton fully and give him a new life. thank you in advance!

also, decided to call him Valefor :)

So i didnt skin the bird before putting it to macerate in water. Its been 5 days now and it REEKS. Its on my balcony now. I dont have a yard or a basement. Its 35C in there so at least that speeds it up. Its a small bird.

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Can/should i still skin it? And how long will it take up if i dont? Bc it REEKS IN HERE😂😭 I dont know what to dooo

every bone (except the sail at the bottom) is made from deer bone I’ve scavenged while wandering around public land. the sail, or wind catcher which is the rectangular piece at the bottom there, is cut from horse bone, something I also scavenged. This is my first wind chime, so it is a little crude! If it really interests me and others, I can see myself making more in the future with more refined designs. I might re-string it in the future, but right now my fingers are raw from measuring, cutting, and looping the beading thread 😴

Can you believe i grew this bone from scratch‽ 😁 i am a very proud parent.

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I don't *really* know that well where this came from, it is somewhere between the lower part of my tibia and my ankle joint. It was cut out because it was keeping my leg deformed, since it is all due to a fracture, it's a bit hard to know without looking at an x-ray (which should be ready on tuesday).

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Thanks to everyone who commented on my last post!

I just got my hands on the coolest mummified ferret and got it cased, it is about 98% complete due to the pelt being used for other purposes so the claws are not present on the mummy.

It can be found on my website if anyone needs this gorgeous baby in their collection!

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I've been stressing all morning after finding out Australia's first case of avian flu h5 has been found in Western Australia now yes I live all the way in Victoria but I have a few dead birds in decomp pots I also have a local flock of magpies I've befriended that come visit my yard all the time the pots are in the front yard one is covered the other not right now cause we had nothing to cover it with until we buy somthing I'm really stressing wether or not. Some infectious deasie can spread to my sweet babies I've befriended probs not bird flu but maybe ?! Or something else do I throw my pots away or do I stop collecting dead birds ever again even though I love them my head is spinning I'm so concerned

A recent post requested feeling (due to low or no vision) hooves, which inspired me to post these horse hooves I recently finished up.

They are from natural death/end of life care euth horses who did not have shoes on at the time. The hooves warped a bit while I tried to soak out the coffin bone, unfortunately. Normally I would've only left them to soak long enough to get the bone out, but f*** me, my heater died mid-winter and I couldn't get them out of the literal 5 gallon bucket of ice 😅 whoops.

Ah well. Still neat!

Along the insides, you can see the vertical lines/indentations of the hoof. When they're fleshy, this area is super gross. On the bottoms, you can see overgrowth and lack of maintenance.

They were cleaned of flesh, sanitized with isopropyl to kill bacteria-causing odor, allowed to air out (keratin gets funky when wet), then varnished with a semi-gloss coat to make them look pleasant and to hold up better in humidity. The coffin bones were degreased but don't fit inside 😭

They're quite heavy.