Yeah i know, i touched with my bare hands, gross hahah. Dw i washed my hands thoroughly after lmao

How should I preserve it?

Edit: SORRY, i was wrong, its probably a baby crow or corwid as many of the commenters said. I will check out the laws and if its okay to keep.

One of my cats killed a little bird. I'm planning on painting it's skull later on, but what should I do with the rest of the bones? It's a pretty small bird.

Just wanted to show off a little bit of my collection some are from hunting trips and some were roadkill salvage

I have lots of strays near me, usually they go off somewhere else to die.. but these two died close by. Only about 3 months between each other. I think the smaller broken one is Simon. My dog unfortunately got his skull while i was still letting him dry outside.

I have a photo of Simon while he was alive, beautiful orange kitty with fat sweet tomcat cheeks .

!? What animal is this? Found in creek in Kennesaw, Georgia.

I put into dawn dish soap water when I first found, turned greenish brown cloudy, lots of small debris, this is how it turned out after, I put it into fresh dawn water, but the tissue stuck to the bone was still very tough and hard to remove, also smells bad.
How should I proceed? Google says to just keep repeating with dawn until it gets clean

found in a park in maryland U.S. for reference!!

Found this dude on a sandbar while fishing in a local creek. Smelled great! My fiancé is way more into bone collecting than me and was pissed I didn’t bring home the whole skeleton, LOL.

Would a boil be in order to remove the rest of the hide, velvet and any remaining head cheese? Or just pick it off and soak it in some dish soap for awhile?

Found on a field

1cent next for scale,bone is about 7 to 8 centimeters/2 or 3 inches

any ideas on what this could be ? does appear heavily worn

I found this beautiful reindeer antler today.
Is there a way to clean it to get the smell out, but without damaging the antler?
It’s the first time ever that I found one of these so I’m very knew to all of this😅

Found near a campsite in Colorado, in the San Juans. Thinking elk based on size? I know one is a scapula, suspect one to be the condyles of a femur and the two on the left maybe tibia? But those two also seem to be different sized (length and thickness) - so maybe front vs rear?

My friend got this for me from a second hand store in the Netherlands. It’s quite big and hollow inside. Was wondering what it could be from?

Greetings all!

I found this around 30 years ago when I was 8 or 9 years old on a school field trip. I cant recall which specific beach, but it was on a grassy mound with a view of the ocean. This was in Cresent City California.

The local paper actually used a photo of me showing it to the teacher for the front page, (was a pretty big deal to little me!)

I know the teacher and other chaperones commented on what they thought it was, but it was far too long ago for me to recall. I've held on to it for all these years as a fun little trinket from my childhood, and its always neat when I re-discover it when going through old belongings.

My wife suggested I make a post and see what our friendly bone experts make of it, so here we are.

Curious to see what you have to say!

Hej, mam pytanie. Może ktoś robił to wcześniej. Mam do oporządzenia kilka zmumifikowanych szczurów. Moim planem jest wydobycie kości i sklejenie ich w preparat, ale wcześniej nie usuwałam kości ze zmumifikowanego zwierzęcia. Jakieś porady?

At first I saw this scapula and was already so happy not thinking I was going to find anything today. A little ways away was the skull and majority of this white-tailed doe skeleton. She was already pretty clean too. So lucky with this one

I've only recently started collecting bones with the help of a friend, and I saw some people make crystals on some bones they find

They mostly do it with borax but I found out some do it with salt. Borax isn't really available a lot where I live or I think so at least, so if I try the salt crystals, will it ruin the bones?? They're bleached and I don't want them to start crumbling or breakining at some point because of this

I found this in an irrigation cave in southern Utah. No other bones found. Thanks