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Offline osage outlaw

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bone ID
« on: June 04, 2012, 04:12:54 am »
Today while I was walking a creek looking for some flint, I found this giant vertabrae.  It is roughly about the size of a softball.  The spinal column hole is about the size of a flattened out golf ball.  Some of the protruding pieces are gone.  It looks really old.  I was thinking it might be from a cow or a horse.  Can anyone tell me what it could be?  I'm going to clean it up and add it to my shelf of animal parts in my office at work.





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Offline TRACY

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Re: bone ID
« Reply #1 on: June 04, 2012, 05:51:50 pm »
Looks like cow to me, not 100% .

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Re: bone ID
« Reply #2 on: June 04, 2012, 07:07:26 pm »
Flesh eating Zombie.... >:D
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Offline osage outlaw

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Re: bone ID
« Reply #3 on: June 04, 2012, 07:23:17 pm »
The creek where I found it is in a suburban area.  There isn't a farm anywhere close.  Who knows how old it is.  Maybe it has been in the creek since before this area got civilized.

Not a zombie bone.  Have you seen all the recent news reports of people eating other people.  Crazy stuff  :o
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Re: bone ID
« Reply #4 on: June 04, 2012, 10:12:59 pm »
Is it fossilized? I find a few like that here but they are fossilized bison, dugong, and whale mostly.

And,, most gun stores sell ammo just for Zombies, now. I bought my wife a box ;D.
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Offline osage outlaw

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Re: bone ID
« Reply #5 on: June 05, 2012, 12:55:37 am »
I don't know.  How do you tell if it's fossilized?
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Offline criveraville

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Re: bone ID
« Reply #6 on: June 05, 2012, 01:43:44 am »
Looks like cow to me. I live in Erath county. # dairy producer in the state. Clint a bad practice was/is to dump dead cows, horses, donkey you name it and zombies in or near creeks.

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Re: bone ID
« Reply #7 on: June 06, 2012, 05:17:00 pm »
Clint, it sounds like a rock when you hit it.
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Re: bone ID
« Reply #8 on: June 07, 2012, 04:23:26 am »
Damn,  I had that anatomy lab just 32 years ago.  You'd think I could be sure, but all I can tell is that its a C1 or Atlas.  That's the very first bone in the spine, the one the skull is attached to.   Ron
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