#bone identification

[theworldofjo]

hi everyone! My boyfriend already posted this on Reddit so if you’re super active in bone id you may have seen it, but does anyone have any idea what this might belong to? I found in on the Tybee island beach in Georgia.

[acethebubblewrappartical]

Found bones next to my bus stop. Can anyone identify them?

[nascentnaturalist]

short-tailed shrew (Blarnia brevicauda) skeleton display, 2025

(with a gifted portrait of my cat, galileo, who slew this little beastie)

my cat left this little shrew out for me in august 2025, having been left unsupervised for a day.

i let it decompose outside by my usual method (patch of bare ground, plastic container with some holes on top, weighed down) and collected the bones before the first snow of the year.

i degreased & did an initial cleaning with dawn dish soap, then sanitized & minimally whitened with a hydrogen peroxide soak. i could have let them soak longer to get them whiter, but i was on a time crunch.

i considered trying to articulate, since i knew i had all the bones, but i cannot overstate how teeny-weeny these bones are. also, i don't have any of the proper glue, because i've never articulated before.

i ended up using this display case i had instead, sewing the bones down into the foam. i don't know if i quite got the ribs in the right order - i haven't done any study of anatomy since high school, and the internet isn't bursting with resources on short-tailed shrews.

i think the layout looks cool, though misleading - the spacing of the ribs makes it appear weasel-like. i maybe should have laid the weasel on its back, stitching the ribs closer together and upright, but i'm sure as hell not redoing it.

[bonesbugsandballads]

Can anyone tell me what kind of bone this is?

[dragonzart03]

Any idea what kind of bone this could be?

I think it’s a bone, at least. I found it in a loose gravel driveway and thought it didn’t look or feel much like a rock. I was thinking it could be a rib bone, but I’m not sure. Could anyone help me identify it?

[smilybonez]

Any ideas on what this could be??

[ghalise-coffee]

heya Tumblr i found this in the garden, do you have an idea of which animal is it from?

[winged-trash]

Cow? Horse? Help...