#dead snake

[skull-hoarder]

I'm finally done

The 3.74 meter reticulated python is finally finished, I am extremely proud, I feel like a peacock

There were probably more than a thousand pieces and I still have a 2.5 meter burmese degreasing and two other snakes in the freezer waiting to be cleaned and articulated

[fractiousrvt]

Were the 2 eggs with the deformed babies the ones with the defective calcium (and therefore kinda expected) or were they from the standard eggs (random chance)?

This first clutch had normal calcification. One of the eggs looked completely normal, the other however was nearly twice the size of the others. I've seen this happen a few times: for some reason these eggs cannot release moisture. It just keeps absorbing. The albumin is thin and under immense pressure and the baby is always deformed. I have no clue why.

I cut both these eggs because everyone else was out and they hadn't even pipped yet.

Photos under the cut, view at your own risk

[bad-science]

Got a lovely new specimen today :)

[photozoi]

The Fort Featherly Ladies and the very large "worm"...

Found a small snake that had been killed on the road and gave it to the Gals ...

... who were fascinated by the snack. You would have thought this was the first time they had had one. It wasn't.

"So... what do you think it tastes like?"

[bigpappahope]

[omensart]

Gay people like metaphors and symbolism, right??

[charlesreeza]

Young Hunter Wounded by a Snake, marble, 1824-27, by Louis Petitot

Louvre Museum, Paris

[october-wing]

A few dead things I found while walking thro the woods. I have no idea what the bone is, if you know pls let me know!