The Skull ID Thread

[JonathanD]

It is a bat as you and Beer Monster have noted. You just need to nail the species now. Not Daubentons or a Noctule.

 

[spiritwalker]

ok since you hinted on widespread and common ill go for brown long eared or pipistrelles hard to gauge without an idea of size lol

 

[JonathanD]

I'll let you have that, it is indeed a Pipistrelle

Yah gotta love these little fellas.

 

[JonathanD]

Here is the next one:

 

[Bushwhacker]

I'll let you have that, it is indeed a Pipistrelle

Yah gotta love these little fellas.

Cor, never seen a bat skull before. It makes sense now looking at it, the skull is almost transluscent which must keep the weight down.

 

[Bushwhacker]

Here is the next one:

Not sure if it looks big enough to be an adult and the teeth are in quite good nick, so I'll guess at a young Roe Deer.

 

[silvergirl]

Strange angle and even with the grass I'm not sure about scale,
But it looks very like a rat skull to me

 

[_scorpio_]

domestic or wild? im thinking cow calf, lamb or possibly young horse

 

[JonathanD]

Very much wild.

 

[_scorpio_]

grey squirrel

 

[_scorpio_]

oh actually it looks quite badger-ish to me.... missing a few teeth possibly?

 

[_scorpio_]

if it is missing some bigger teeth then fox?

 

[JonathanD]

grey squirrel

'fraid not.

 

[JonathanD]

if it is missing some bigger teeth then fox?

It is missing some teeth, but no one has got it right yet.

 

[Radix lecti]

Hello, im sure i have seen those teeth and jawbone before so im going for a Hedgehog.
Darren

 

[JonathanD]

Hello, im sure i have seen those teeth and jawbone before so im going for a Hedgehog.
Darren

You got it.

 

[Radix lecti]

Ah, excellent, bring on another Jonathan.
Darren

 

[JonathanD]

Here you go #3...

 

[Hairy Steve]

shrew perhaps?

 

[Radix lecti]

A blight on anyones lawn, is it a mole ?
Darren