tyra

Hi. I am usually a lurker but I have a question. My kids, husband and I
found some bones by the railroad tracks on an outing. We believe they
are from a few different animals. Some are rib bones, we have a small
lower jaw bone, various appendage bones but we are unable to identify
the animal(s). Does anyone know how we can begin to identify what the
bones are then maybe figure out the animals they came from? We think
that maybe a coyote or the red tailed hawks that live in are area may
have something to do with it. They are realatively old, we think. Any
info would be great for my future palentologist.

thanks, tyra

Nancy Wooton

On Oct 10, 2007, at 7:17 PM, tyra wrote:

> Hi. I am usually a lurker but I have a question. My kids, husband and I
> found some bones by the railroad tracks on an outing. We believe they
> are from a few different animals. Some are rib bones, we have a small
> lower jaw bone, various appendage bones but we are unable to identify
> the animal(s). Does anyone know how we can begin to identify what the
> bones are then maybe figure out the animals they came from? We think
> that maybe a coyote or the red tailed hawks that live in are area may
> have something to do with it. They are realatively old, we think. Any
> info would be great for my future palentologist.
>
> thanks, tyra
>

I can never resist a Google search ;-) Maybe this will help:

http://www.geocities.com/abeisaw/animal.html

(I Googled "identifying animal bones," btw.)

Nancy

Shannon Rizzo

Do you have a picture of them?

Shannon


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tyra beaulieu

no but i could. that would probably help. I can't do it now, too late and i have a date with harry potter in about 5 minutes but i will do it tomorrow. good idea. i will post them tomorrow.

thanks, tyra

Shannon Rizzo <shannon@...> wrote:
Do you have a picture of them?

Shannon


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tyra beaulieu

spectacular. i, for some odd reason, did not get that link when i googled it. But i don't think i specified mammal bones. thanks a bunch my son will be excited.

tyra

Nancy Wooton <nancywooton@...> wrote:

On Oct 10, 2007, at 7:17 PM, tyra wrote:

> Hi. I am usually a lurker but I have a question. My kids, husband and I
> found some bones by the railroad tracks on an outing. We believe they
> are from a few different animals. Some are rib bones, we have a small
> lower jaw bone, various appendage bones but we are unable to identify
> the animal(s). Does anyone know how we can begin to identify what the
> bones are then maybe figure out the animals they came from? We think
> that maybe a coyote or the red tailed hawks that live in are area may
> have something to do with it. They are realatively old, we think. Any
> info would be great for my future palentologist.
>
> thanks, tyra
>

I can never resist a Google search ;-) Maybe this will help:

http://www.geocities.com/abeisaw/animal.html

(I Googled "identifying animal bones," btw.)

Nancy






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Sandra Dodd

-=-no but i could. that would probably help. I can't do it now, too
late and i have a date with harry potter in about 5 minutes but i
will do it tomorrow. good idea. i will post them tomorrow.-=-

Maybe not a great idea. <g>

Go where the discussion is about bones, please. Talking about where
you found answers (and how Nancy searched for sites) is great.
Bringing the WHOLE discussion here goes off topic.

Thanks.

Sandra

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Shannon Rizzo

Here are some sites that my help and may be of interest to others:

HYPERLINK
"http://www.vetmed.wsu.edu/ClientED/anatomy/musculoskel.asp"http://www.vetme
d.wsu.edu/ClientED/anatomy/musculoskel.asp

HYPERLINK "http://www.vspn.org/Library/WWWDirectory/Anatomy.htm"
\nhttp://www.vspn.org/Library/WWWDirectory/Anatomy.htm (also contains a
sheep brain dissection, frog dissection video, cat dissection)

Shannon


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