r/bonecollecting 21h ago

Bone I.D. - N. America What is this? BC, Canada.

What has me interested is the fact that it has canines and is this large. I should've put something in the photo for proper scale but it was easily over 12 inches long.

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u/Geckosproot 21h ago

wild boar

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u/roadkillsoup 21h ago

Feral hog skull, top jaw and cranium.

The "bottom jaw" is actually a skull as well: the top jaw and cranium of a small deer, flipped upside down

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u/RealisticBaseball512 21h ago

OH MY GOSH I SEE IT NOW. thanks a lot. I actually stacked them on top of each other thinking they were one whole skull. I feel silly now

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u/roadkillsoup 21h ago

I got really excited on first glance because the jaw looked so Wrong, i thought it must have been some cool pathology like cancer or osteomyelitis. But mjstaken identity is fun too!

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u/RealisticBaseball512 21h ago

Welp this stuff is very cool! Thanks friend

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u/barnowl1980 6h ago

No need to feel silly, most people are very unfamiliar with bones. I have to admit I'm both amused by you creating this Frankenstein's bone monster, and impressed how well that deer skull seemingly would fit there to the untrained eye, at least size-wise.

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u/bcmouf 20h ago

Piggy and a doe skull. Since we dont have feral hogs, i assume it's someone's butcher waste from a longer skulled domestic breed like ossabaw island hog or even a Russian boar cross(someone not far from us swore by Russian boarXossabaw island making some of the nicest pork and for a while shipped piglets all over BC)

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u/Few_Dinner3804 17h ago

The deer skull is proper scale enough