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Friday mystery object #161 answer
On Friday I gave you this bird skull to identify: Most of you managed to identify it pretty easily – Robin suggested something in the right family, while Ric Morris, henstridgesj, Matthew King and Jake...
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Friday mystery object #162
This Friday I thought I’d share a funky specimen that I had to identify earlier this week. Any idea what this is? As usual you can put your thoughts below, preferably in a cryptic format so that other...
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Friday mystery object #163
I have another bird skull for you to identify this week – sorry if all the bird skulls are getting repetitive, but that’s what I’ve been working on! This specimen had no identification and had me...
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Friday mystery object #163 answer
On Friday I gave you this object from the collections of the Horniman Museum to identify: The specimen had lost its label at some point in the past, so I had to identify it myself and was hoping to get...
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Friday mystery object #164 answer
On Friday I gave you this object to identify: It was a bit of a tricky one, since a few vertebrae aren’t a huge amount to go on. However, the large size helps narrow it down, as do the distinctively …...
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Friday mystery object #165 answer
On Friday I gave you this object from the Horniman collections to identify: It’s fairly obvious that it’s a claw, but the question is what is it a claw from? This claw was originally identified as...
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Friday mystery object #166 answer
On Friday I gave you this great skull from the Grant Museum of Zoology to identify: A big list of you (Mieke Roth, Jake, mcarnall, Anthony wilkes, 23thorns, Cam Weir, henstridgesj, Rhea, leigh and...
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Friday mystery object #168 answer
On Friday I gave you this specimen to identify: As I suspected, the distinctive shape of the skull makes this specimen easily recognisable as an owl (family Strigiformes). However, there are a couple...
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Oddjects No.1
I’ve been running my mystery object for over three years now and I’ve decided to add another kind of post in order to share some of the odd and interesting objects that I come across as I work in the …...
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