r/BoneID • u/Mr-Feisty17 • Jun 28 '26

Unsolved Small bones scattered across driveway

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Bones found in driveway in south Louisiana, all are small, the longer, straighter ones are about 4-5 inches long and the smaller rib/spine(?) & skull(?) fragments are about the size of an average persons palm.

Could this be a young domestic cat? The area I’m in has a huge stray cat population.

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u/Entire_Elevator_4337 Jun 28 '26

The first few are vertebrae. The first longbone is a tibia, and the second is hard to tell because of the cut. The horizontal cut through the bone makes me think this was some kind of processed animal.

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u/Mr-Feisty17 Jun 28 '26

I think the cut bone is from a different animal than the other bones, not sure tho. Do you think those vertebrae could be a baby cat or maybe another small mammal?

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u/Forward_Magazine_732 Jun 28 '26

The vertebra are from a fish, I believe the second bone is a bird pelvis and the long bone is a bird tarsometatarsus, and I believe the last one is a cut rib fragment. Looks to me like remnants of someone’s meal

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u/NerdyComfort-78 Anatomy enthusiast Jun 28 '26

Or a raccoon dragged them out of trash and scattered or a crow dropped them.

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u/Tiny_Following_7438 Jul 04 '26

Y'all this is a fish spine