Name this skeleton

[ollie989898]

Shergar?

Missing remains of Lord Lucan?

 

[Paddington]

Found a head just like that in a hay bale the other week, don't think I would have my foot that close to a live one !

 

[ollie989898]

Those huge jaws going right back into the skull are significant.
I’d say young badger.
Edit:
If you count the back teeth, badgers have 4, foxes 6 and a fox skull is longer and sleeker. Narrower at the nose than a badger.

Been around a lot of dead badgers have we?

 

[James]

Those huge jaws going right back into the skull are significant.
I’d say young badger.
Edit:
If you count the back teeth, badgers have 4, foxes 6 and a fox skull is longer and sleeker. Narrower at the nose than a badger.

I was thinking either fox or badger. What would kill a badger assuming it didn't die of natural causes?

 

[yellowbelly]

@James' picture....

Image from Google of a badger....

Looks like one less TB vector....so whatever killed it, it's a result

 

[dstudent]

Robin

Whaaat
Does Batman know????

 

[Dry Rot]

This is the Googled image of the badger skull posted by Yellowbelly. Sorry to disagree, but I'd guess that is an American beastie (URL has .com on the end).

This is a UK badger (below) and it has a very distinctive raised ridge at the rear of the skull for attachment of jaw muscles. That was always pointed out to me as a child as being a feature of a badger skull. My guess is otter, or maybe pine marten.

 

[yellowbelly]

This is the Googled image of the badger skull posted by Yellowbelly. Sorry to disagree, but I'd guess that is an American beastie (URL has .com on the end).

This is a UK badger (below) and it has a very distinctive raised ridge at the rear of the skull for attachment of jaw muscles. That was always pointed out to me as a child as being a feature of a badger skull. My guess is otter, or maybe pine marten.


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Interesting @Dry Rot I bow to your superior knowledge

 

[Bury the Trash]

never mind what it was.


what to call it ........... how about Raymond ?

 

[dstudent]

never mind what it was.


what to call it ........... how about Raymond ?

I shall call it...............Kim
And we ll shall be great friends

 

[Bones]

I'd go pine martin

 

[Warp Land Farmer]

Feather-Legged Water Rabit

 

[multi power]

Horse??

No, it's not in a stable

 

[Bones]

Shergar

 

[haulmblower]

Do this!
http://www.nhm.ac.uk/natureplus/community/identification/teeth-bones?fromGateway=true

 

[Bury the Trash]

I shall call it...............Kim
And we ll shall be great friends

No.....' Slim '

 

[Cab-over Pete]

It’s Sqrat, the Squirrel Rat off the film Ice Age.

 

[matthew]

Been around a lot of dead badgers have we?

http://bovinetb.blogspot.co.uk/2009/08/alas-poor-yorick.html

A few. This one identified by Dr. John Gallagher.

 

[ARW]

It’s the dead horse

 

[Warp Land Farmer]

It’s Sqrat, the Squirrel Rat off the film Ice Age.

Didn't @Clive find one of those in his grain store?