strange skulls

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today me and a buddy was in the woods near where i hunt scoping out the conditions for this year and tracking down the trails. i found this lodged high in a tree. is this a skull and if so wtf is it.
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i also found this one on some rocks. is that nosterals on top of the head? also, why does it have 4 eye sockets.
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For the first one I would say that you are pulling my leg...
It seems to me like it's birds breast plate aka chiken breast bone.
Must be a larger bird but a bird anyhow. :rolleyes:

Second one...Bird bones. :o hips.

Juha
 
My SWAG:
First one is a breastbone from something.
Second one is vertabre/backbone from something, maybe the same thing.

(SWAG=Scientific Wild A## Guess)
 
Like some pointed out, it looks like breast bone and low back bone from a rather big bird.
 
Not a skull, no orbits for the eyes, no attachment point for a jaw. Nor are they vertebral bodies, no spinal canal, no disk (or place for one), no foramen, no lamina, no spinous process, no pedicle. Most likely they are chicken or turkey parts like breast bones (top one) possibly pelvis or hip (bottom one). Those are not nostrils, pointed the wrong direction and their location would not be right in any case. Also, typically notrils are surrounded by cartilage (not bone) and would be gone either by being eaten or simply decaying quickly.

Regardless, soak them in some bleach water. Then leave them or paint them to look cool.
Mike
 
I found one just like that a few years ago when I was walking around in Area 51.
 
Ebbtide said:
My SWAG:
First one is a breastbone from something.
Second one is vertabre/backbone from something, maybe the same thing.

(SWAG=Scientific Wild A## Guess)
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Looks to be my SWAG too.
 
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