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Help me identify a bone
« on: Jun 13, 2012, 06:41:31 AM »
OK, all you sciency folks out there. This vertebra was a decoration in a hostel I stayed in in Belgrade. Could you please help me identifying it. I made the amateur mistake of not using an everyday item for scale, but it was around 18-20 cm across. My guess is that it's probably a mammoth, but I'm not really sure.




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Re: Help me identify a bone
« Reply #1 on: Jun 13, 2012, 08:06:01 AM »
Off the top of my head, maybe Whale?
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Re: Help me identify a bone
« Reply #2 on: Jun 13, 2012, 08:18:37 AM »
Homo habilis

It is a little known fact that homo habilis had one gigantic vertebra.

The one thing I can tell you is that because it is still bone and not a fossil it isn't a Dino.
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Re: Help me identify a bone
« Reply #3 on: Jun 14, 2012, 08:55:29 PM »
Most likely some kind of whale.
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Re: Help me identify a bone
« Reply #4 on: Jun 14, 2012, 10:25:01 PM »
I do know a University Geologist. . .Do you want me to ask him?
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Re: Help me identify a bone
« Reply #5 on: Jun 14, 2012, 11:09:05 PM »
Do you know how old it is?

Looks like the centrum of a cervical vertebra missing the rest of its processes (transverse process, pedicle, etc.). Or a part of the thicker part of a large whale's tail....

My guess would go to a mammoth or whale.
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Re: Help me identify a bone
« Reply #6 on: Jun 15, 2012, 01:15:35 AM »
Quote from: Desert Fox on Jun 14, 2012, 10:25:01 PM
I do know a University Geologist. . .Do you want me to ask him?

That would be nice. But don't go out of your way, I'm just curious.

Quote from: Boßel on Jun 14, 2012, 11:09:05 PM
Do you know how old it is?

No idea.
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Re: Help me identify a bone
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Re: Help me identify a bone
« Reply #8 on: Jun 26, 2012, 04:11:11 PM »
Got in touch with my friend. . He has been traveling
Where they actual bone or fossil?
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