Forum: Bryce


Subject: What kind of animal bone is this? (caution!! scanned image of animal jawbone!!

matrixmode opened this issue on Jan 09, 2006 ยท 31 posts


matrixmode posted Tue, 10 January 2006 at 3:38 AM

Okay so now my cat's pissed off at me and so are my girlfriends two cats. Her dog seemed to like the attention though, lol. I checked their teeth and the dog's teeth looked the most similar to this bone. Close but no cigar. So I looked all over google, which didn't take as long as I thought. There really aren't that many pictures of animal jawbones surprisingly. It came down to opossum or skunk. They're very similar. And the winner is.... Opossum! I managed to find a decent image at: http://www.digimorph.org/specimens/Monodelphis_domestica/adult/ I clicked on "About this specimen". And there it was. But just to be entirely certain I'm gonna take it to the natural history museum in town. Sorry I bugged you all with this but I really wanted to be sure it wasn't a cat's jaw. My girlfriends cat was run over by a car about 10 years ago. She saw it happen. Very traumatic incident. Still upsets her. Needless to say all the cats are now indoor cats. Long story short, she buried it in the hillside in the backyard. When I found this bone I freaked thinking the squirrels had somehow dug up her pet! :P ugh! Skiwillgee, yeah the baby 'possums are the ones that have the needle like teeth and like to hiss when threatened or scared. The adults just slowly walk away dripping stinky stuff. lol. If that doesn't work they fake death. LOL at draculaz and CrazyDawg! So I,m thinking of putting this into a Bryce image. I haven't posted one in so long...I'm a little rusty. :) What do you think? It would make a cool terrain object, yes? If it turns out halfway decent I'll post it in freestuff. Thanks for helping me try to solve this, and for the laughs too. :D Persevere, Mark

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