Recent content by Galemys

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On request, the ' streaker' in a more relaxed stance. The head is a jackdaw skull. Cheers, Tom

The stork skull with the bill sheaths put back on: Cheers, Tom

I forgot to mention that the black keratin tip of the bills of ducks is called the 'nail'. Cheers, Tom

New addition, a male common scoter (Melanitta nigra). Unfortunately the bill sheathing with its fiery colouring could not be saved. In ducks, swans & geese these sheathings are of a rubbery/leathery texture, not hard like in other birds. The colours would not have survived peroxide treatment so...

Latest additions: A beautiful adult stork (Ciconia ciconia) and a washed up adult greater black-backed gull (Larus marinus): Stork skull with the two keratine sheaths ('rhamphoteca') for upper and lower mandible. Stork skull compared to a blue heron's skull. Big bird... Greater...

The cat from my colleague at work had dragged this in; a rose-ringed parakeet (a female, lacking the black collar of the male). So I collected it and turned the remains into this beautiful skull. url=https://postimg.cc/hJ60ggJZ][/url] Work under construction: a mole and a housecat...

Found this during a weekend in the Solling area (central Germany) last month: half a fire salamander (Salamandra salamandra terrestris)...it was snapped in two by an unknown, but probably very stupid or naive predator. Fire salamanders are highly poisonous (see the yellow glands with black dots...

Wonderful! I think your herring gull is not a herring gull, these might be tailfeathers from a curlew (see https://www.featherbase.info/nl/species/Numenius/arquata) or from something else. Cheers, Tom

Latest addition: Chiffchaff, a traffic victim found on holiday in Spain. Cheers, Tom

Great collection, keep them coming! Is that a fox(?) In the background & some boar tusks on the left? What species are the smaller bird skulls? Sparrow/finch? I really like the lego dodo! One of my favourite birds. Cheers, Tom

As promised some more pics of the asp viper skull and its preparation. Not visible is that one of the lower jaw halfs disintegrated in to its 2 components that had to be glued together again. Both sides of the upper jaw contained 3 fangs. Cheers, Tom PS @JonathanD: thanks for...

Thank's for the kind words Jonathan! Both sides of the skull had multiple fangs, some were hidden in the gum/cartilage and were only revealed in the late stages of the preparation process. I'll add some close ups later this week. @jonathan: could you tell by the initial pictures if this was a...

After some 3D-puzzling with all the loose bony fragments, this is the finalised asp viper skull: Cheers, Tom

A short holiday in the Auvergne region, France, delivered an unexpected present...a freshly killed asp viper (Vipera aspis)! It was presumably the victim of a cat because of the location (on top of stone wall) and the mortal wound (crushed neck). I cut off the head and took it with me back to...