Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Around the Campfire => Topic started by: osage outlaw on June 04, 2012, 04:12:54 am
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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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Looks like cow to me, not 100% .
Tracy
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Flesh eating Zombie.... >:D
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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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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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I don't know. How do you tell if it's fossilized?
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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.
Cipriano
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Clint, it sounds like a rock when you hit it.
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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