Things to Make and Do, Part 14: sheep skull
September 30, 2014
Just a quick photo-post today. A couple of months ago, walking around the fields near our house, I found a broad shallow pit with a lot of a sheep skeletal elements in it. I took my youngest son out on an expedition, and we rescued the good material. I’ve cleaned up the first two (of three) skulls. Here is the smaller of the two — which is also more complete, and the big one has lost its nasals.
Click through for glorious high-resolution (4000 x 3000, and not a pixel wasted).
I took a nice set of orthogonal-view photos of this skull. When I have time, I will clean them up and composite them as I did with my pig-skull, which I’m sure you all remember:
(Well … I call it my pig skull, but it’s not mine any longer. I donated it as the prize for winning the TetZooCon quiz, and it is now the proud possession of Kelvin Britton. But I have another one, so that’s all right.)
Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week 
September 30, 2014 at 10:52 pm
Nice! My first skull was a sheep skull that I collected from a similar pit with my grandpa when I was about 6 years old. Apparently my uncle (who was a shepherd) would put culled sheep, or ones killed by coyotes there. It was a really eye opening (and somewhat spooky) early memory, and I’d be willing to bet your son will remember his experience for years to come as well. Good job!!
October 5, 2014 at 2:19 pm
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