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My side blog for dead things. Bones and furs, in progress and finished. Sometimes bloody. Always dead. www.etsy.com/shop/BlackSunShop

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in 2020, we will finish our WIPs.

we :) will :)

this is a threat.

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Mummified rabbit left outside. Photo: Erin Sullivan of The Mausoleum 

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Still alive. Still playing with animal remains. Just haven't had the motivation to photograph anything or do much here, my bad.

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skinning: fun, enjoyable, great way to spend an afternoon

fleshing/removing membranes: i would rather be hugging a cactus

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Another brachy pup from the skull order, and something else that isn’t a pug :o! Its a West Highland Terrier puppy, who’s nickname is Goblin now since everyone keeps calling the poor guy that lol. (instagram)

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“Tell me your favorite weird fact.”

The Earth is covered in corpses. We breathe the air the dead exude, eat the food they nourished with their decay, pour their remains into our cars, wear them and sleep on them. And then we call them scary without even noticing that they are present in every single thing of our lives. We live because of the dead.

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Worst case of periodontal disease I’ve seen in person on a male German Spitz skull. I don’t know how his previous owners could have let things get this out of hand! Instagram

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Awesome Megafauna Skulls!

My last weird and awesome skull post was really popular, so I decided to do one about something else I’m excessively interested in: Megafauna! This isn’t at all a comprehensive list of the coolest ones, not by a long shot, so you should definitely look up some of the BBC docs on Youtube or google ones from your continent!

The cave bear! (N. America)

‘Hell Pigs’ (N. America) Actually entelodonts, unrelated to pigs at all and more closely tied to hippos and cetaceans! Dat sagittal crest amirite

The Stag Moose  @allosauroid brought to my attention that this is the skull of the Irish elk, Megaloceros, not a stag moose! (Eurasia) Which stood 6 foot at the shoulder/withers

Platybelodon (widespread) Google artist renditions of these guys, you won’t be disappointed

Barbourofelis! (N. America) Like a smaller smilodon, with much cooler teeth. Look at those incisors!

Megatherium (S. America) Primitive sloths the size of elephants!

Titanus Walleri (N. America) Other continents had equally large if not larger ‘terror birds’

Paraceratherium (Eurasia) One of the largest terrestrial mammals we’ve ever discovered. It was actually a species of hornless rhino! Google artist recs of these guys, too

Diprotodon (Australia) The largest known marsupial, which was the size of a hippopotamus and stood 6 feet tall

I saved Glyptodon (S. America) for last, because these things have some of the weirdest skulls I’ve ever seen. They were technically armadillos, but reached the size of a Volkswagen Beetle!

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Good stuff. 

(Cave Bears were found in Eurasia, not North America.)

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the wide range of movement in a parrots upper mandible. typically, a birds upper beak isn’t movable and is fused to the cranium through bone and/or muscle. in parrots, the various bones that make up the upper palette and mandible have adapted to allow the beak to move alongside the lower jaw opening, as an adaption for manipulating objects and eating tougher foods.

this bird is a blue-crowned parakeet, who used to be a pet. their skeleton will be articulated for scientific and educational purposes.

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Liger Skull and canine compared to a Tigon skull.

There’s a limited-time preorder going on right now for a cast of the Tigon skull, so claim yours now if you want one!

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Coyote with injured jaw that healed over time. The body of the mandible fused together at one point!

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Replica Tigon Skull Preorder

Replica Tigon Skull Preorder

This is a PREORDER for a resin replica cast from a real Tigon (male tiger x female lioness) skull. The cast will not have nasal turbinates. This is one of the only tigon skull casts available online, and I believe it is the largest at roughly 13″ x 9″. This skull has quite a lot going on:

It has very wide zygomatic arches with an elongated snout

It is not perfectly symmetrical! It curves very…

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RoboRoo! A large male kangaroo I’m working on has metal plates and screws in both of his forearms! I do not know whether these were to correct breaks or a deformity

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I didn’t intend to keep this coyote, but well. I became attached. She now hangs above the head of our bed. 

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Cat skull that sits on my altar. I’ve had her for about a year, and when I started making crystal skulls, she wanted in on the fun.

Personal piece. I do have some other painted crystal skulls listed on my Etsy.

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Wee little chipmunk bone and micro quartz point earrings, available on my Etsy.