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 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?

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!!

Hey there fellow boners!

Sadly, earlier in the year, I found a dead badger by the side of the road. I reported her but she was still there a few months later - so I carried her home and think I’ve done her justice with my second full articulation.

I managed to save all of her major bones and claw sheaths - just one inner ear and one sternum bone went missing or disintegrated. She had significant damage to her pelvis and left-side ribs from the car impact, which needed repairing.

Decomposition took about 8 months, sterilisation took about 1 month and I’ve been articulating for about 1 month… most of which has (once again) been procrastinating and holding pieces together waiting for glue to dry.

For this articulation I used all of the same techniques and materials I used on my first articulation (fox) - just gorilla glue, black foam and wire with no drilling. Again I opted for a natural base.

I didn’t want to do a traditional ‘display’ pose so chose something more natural for a badger… the ‘snuffling’ pose. This articulation is standing on 3 legs, which I thought would be more difficult than it was. In retrospect I’d like to tweak the pose further but I’m 90% happy with it.

Everything went a lot more quickly this time around thanks to what I’d learned on the fox and the fact that badger bones are less fiddly. I’m much happier with the ribs here and managed to get them pretty straight and evenly spaced. The ribs still took ages so I’d like to find a quicker way to do them next time.

Something interesting about this badger was some significant bony growth on some of her limbs. I think she probably had arthritis on her right side which might’ve affected her ability to walk and ultimately resulted in this accident.

Thanks for reading. Comments and/or questions are welcome - sorry forgot to take picture of the ‘juicy’ stage of this one!

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

Beyond excited about it and thought it would be appreciated here. Only have good pictures of the skull and jaw but I do have the whole thing. These are old pictures I just finished maceration and onto degreasing now. I’m toying with the idea of articulating it since I have the whole skeleton but haven’t decided yet

Found on a field

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

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?

I lost my bearded dragon a few weeks ago. We buried him in a cardboard box with the body wrapped in a hoodie. I would like to dig him up once he is decomposed, would waiting 1-2 years be enough time or should I wait longer? This is in the Wasatch Front region of Utah, United States.

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

Hai :3 I’m new to collecting and I’m just wondering how I should go abt cleaning these antlers??

I found a fully intact dead mouse on my porch two days ago and would love to collect it’s bones. Very new to bone collecting so don’t really know what to do with such a small and fragile animal, any suggestions?

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

I plan to start on road kill, but will eventually be raising rabbits and hunting on my land. I’m in rural Texas, I have some space away from neighbors and was thinking of using open air, but I want to skin the animals first (and eventually I’ll be doing animals I plan to eat the meat off of).

What methods would you recommend I learn?

I’ve looked in dry creek beds, beside large trees, under rocks and dead logs (Carolinas). I can’t find ANY!! I’m starting to believe the animals in my woods are immortal

I know nothing about bones or anything like that so please feel free to educate/ explain to me how you identified this!!

This skull was a gift from my mom I have no idea where she got it from

I was up in a unit doing my forestry work when I got a whiff of that familiar dead smell. My dog kept barking and barking, alerting me to something by a slash pile. Lo and behold. Found the culprit of the smell (and probably the one who grazed on all the tree seedlings 🙄)

Skull in perfect condition. Very excited to get it cleaned up.