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Calling skull and bone lovers around Leicestershire, UK! We've been invited back to the Friends of the University of Leicester Botanic Garden 's 'Plant Sale & Family Day' on the 29th June 10am - 5pm! We'll have a couple of volunteers helping out and some cool skulls and skeletons, microscopes, stickers, leaflets, and a skull guessing game! There will be plenty of stalls and activities on the day, including plant sales, other wildlife groups, art and craft stalls from local artists, and activities for the kids. If you and your family are interested in zoology and wildlife, especially bones, please come and find us! We should be located with other wildlife groups on one of the lawns. Check out the Friend's of the University of Leicester Botanic Garden's page for more information about the event closer to the time We also plan on selling official 'The Skull Index' recycled acrylic pins, featuring skulls of two species, to raise funds for The Rainforest Trust!

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what the hell ever. swamp rabbit ^

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two marten pelts i tanned recently! this was my first proper attempt at tanning.

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fit for today

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roadkill — the saddest way to die, imagining those poor critters trying to get home to its family but ends up in another place all frightened & alone. getting eaten by the vultures; ran over countlessly by the endless vehicles that will pass by its mangled body. i feel for the animals that were lost upon their journey, in search of food, to feed themselves & the families they should’ve returned to. they tried to make the best out of the short lives these creatures were given. i mourn the loss of creatures that weren’t loved - buried and forgotten. i take them home to love them once more, in their final stages. i weep & sorrow upon their deaths and wish them one final goodbye, hoping they will end up somewhere safe.

#vulture culture #bone collecting #bonecollector #oddities #animal skull #wet specimen #vintage #oddity #bone hunting #taxidermy #my pics

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To the roadkill, Those animals on the road, The ones who once lived.

Deprived of life, Deprived of kindness, Deprived of purpose For all but the Vultures, Guardians of the dead.

May those who guide you onwards Be gentler than the things that killed you.

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What is the Skull Index?

The Skull Index is an entirely volunteer-run non-profit collaborative educational project. We are working with private collectors, educational institutions, and museums to create a public free to use osteological reference website.

The project was developed in 2023 between @birbbones, @dread-doughnuts, and another friend. We recognized that a gap exists between professional organizations and private specimen collectors, which we hope to bridge with our project. We also recognize that there is a lack of publicly available resources for hobbyist collectors and especially in the age of AI we feel it's important to create one.

We are always accepting submissions of new specimens for the website. If you have a specimen you'd like to submit more information can be found on our Get Involved page. The best way to get in touch with our team is either via email ([email protected]) or by joining our Community Discord Server, though we can also be contacted through messages and asks on this blog!

New submissions will be posted to this blog as we upload them to the website, however, we also have a queue running of previously submitted specimens that will be posted once a day.

We hope to see the project grow even more in 2025!