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[-] recreationalplacebos@midwest.social 58 points 10 months ago

What you have is the posterior portion of a fish mandible, known as the articular.

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago
[-] recreationalplacebos@midwest.social 18 points 10 months ago

My background is in zooarchaeology, so I've spent a lot of time identifying and analyzing bones from archaeological sites. (Although I'm not good with fish and reptiles. Mostly mammals and birds where I'm at.)

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago
[-] KingJalopy@lemm.ee 4 points 10 months ago

You can tell by the pixels

[-] steal_your_face@lemmy.ml 4 points 10 months ago
[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago
[-] Roccobot@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

Thanks! 😍

[-] DessertStorms@kbin.social 9 points 10 months ago
[-] Roccobot@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

There were a lot of cuttlebones, this doesn't look like another just randomly cut, I don't know

[-] DessertStorms@kbin.social 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Sorry that was my best guess, either broken or eaten cuttlebone. But if it doesn't look like the others then it's probably from another type of sea creature, someone else is bound to know more (E: looks like someone does!)..

[-] Cuzscience@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

It’s a fish bone, but not sure what species or part of the skeleton. I’ve seen many on beaches around the Gulf of Mexico.

[-] Municipal0379@lemmy.world -3 points 10 months ago

Fairly certain it a human hand with what appears to be a blackish paint of some kind on fingernails.

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