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hey i sent this same question to /b/ and all they said was mudkip or lapras

i found this part of a skull washed up while camping.

was fresh water and in south australia.


has space for six teeth each side.


any ideas?
>> Anonymous
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moar pics.
>> Anonymous
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moar
>> Anonymous
it looks kinda like my uncle frank...
>> Anonymous
just e-mail it to a marine bio professor @ a local(ish) university.
>> Anonymous
>>199424

Well then, you have come to the right place, my friend! /an/ of 4chan is the best place to identify the obscure parts of animal skulls! /b/ and the other boards are full of idiots. Only fully-educated experts reside on /an/!
Now then, I have examined the pictures you provided, and after having done some brief research, I have come to a conclusion! It appears to be the lower mandible of a creature unique to Southern Australia's lakes and rivers: it is of the rare freshwater Lapras.

You're welcome.
>> Anonymous
I think it would make a rather fetching hat.
>> Anonymous
Wow, no idea.
>> Anonymous
If I didn't know better I'd say that'd be the shell of one of those giant beetles because of the horn but yeah, size.
>> Anonymous
Any Pics from the underside?
>> Anonymous
It's a rare Analobster shell. You can tell my the marks on the horn-like protrusion.
>> Anonymous
>>199490
Anal lobster? Analobster, Seriously?

Cause it makes sense, the teeth spaces actually being spaces for legs and I guess on the end a tail but that doesn't seem right...

Godamnit, fuck you for planting the seeds of doubt.
>> Anonymous
when i first saw it it looked like the skin of a gliding possum.

But I have no idea what it is if its a skull, and your other pictures are just weird. whatever it is, hope you find out.
>> Anonymous
>>199499
Habeeb it. I am an expert in Analology.
>> Anonymous
>>199424

Young Bunyip?
>> Anonymous
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>>199520

Dot and the kangaroo bunyip song ftw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtrYO-Mog60
>> Anonymous
That looks to be the keel bone (sternum) of some freaky bird, not a part of a skull. Those spaces aren't for teeth but for ribs.

And I am being serious, BTW.
>> Anonymous
Let's see the underside of it.
It can't be a Lapras, the dentition is all wrong. And Mudkips don't even have teeth. /b/ if full of retards.
>> Anonymous
>>199533
that's a good point. There's no place for a brain if that's a skull, or at least the brain would be in the nose.
>> L.M.F.C.
>>199533
that was my first thought as well.

I've been looking up platypus anatomy at a guess, but no luck. Maybe some part of the interior of a turtle shell?
>> Anonymous
>>199591
Turtle was my first thought too.
>> Anonymous
turtle shell, with a fucking spoiler on top
>> Frankengun !IYJnILmKjA
It's a dowsing rod.
>> Anonymous
Alright, I cant make a better guess without having seen the inside of it, but here goes. It looks like a chest piece of some kind, and those slots do indeed look like their for ribs. It also looks like the bone is hollow, identifying it as a bird maybe. Thats all I got for now. It is indeed fucking wierd though.
>> Anonymous
go to yahoo answers

i found a skeleton that i thought was a small alligator head that turned out to be a ducks back, and they told me on thurr
>> Anonymous
>>199533

my first thought was an albatross keel, and I do think it is the keel of a large bird, there are lots of large water-ish birds which would explain its size and the fact that it washed up.

http://image.guim.co.uk/Guardian/arts/gallery/2007/oct/26/photography/albatros_2j-5780.jpg

look at that pic (im too lazy to save and repost). you are looking directly at it.
>> Anonymous
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It's a large bird's sternum. Habeeb it.
>> Anonymous
Mystery solved!
>> Anonymous
Now that that's solved, you should make it into a wonderful hat.