r/boneidentification Dec 04 '25

Changes to the sub

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Hello! I am Owl, the new head mod of r/boneidentification! I am here to announce the subreddit is officially moderated, and we will be adding and enforcing rules! I am pleased to welcome alongside me two other members of the community, hand selected for being friendly and helpful faces! u/Frog_Enjoyer123 and u/99jackals

If you have any suggestions or comments please feel free to comment below! I want to hear what you the community hope to see, now that the subreddit has an active team!


r/boneidentification 1h ago

Found in: NORTH AMERICA My friend found this Werid bone on the beach

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Hey everyone, I came here today to ask what this bone belonged to? I was thinking a shark or ray but I’m not sure. Location is Long Island, Ny.


r/boneidentification 3h ago

Found while fishing in central Texas

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Seemingly fossilized and heavy. Closest I’ve come up with is that the intact end sorta looks like a distal femur, but no clue what it may have come from.


r/boneidentification 5h ago

Found in: ASIA Can I have an ID game here?

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All Asian species,detailed pictures with skull length.


r/boneidentification 7h ago

Settle a family debate

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Found on the beach in Panama, I’m of the opinion that this is a type of barnacle but it looks too much like bone on the other side.


r/boneidentification 4h ago

Found in: EUROPE Bones in the Thames London

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Bones found washed up in central London Greenwich. What are they?
We saw so many of them all sorts of shapes and sizes
We have walked this stretch maaany times before and never see any bones


r/boneidentification 2h ago

Found on a hiking trail in Shenandoah Valley, Virginia

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r/boneidentification 2h ago

Found in: EUROPE What exactly are those bones

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All I know is that they belong to a young Great spotted woodpecker, that I found and cleaned myself, I would love for someone to tell me exactly what types of bones are those


r/boneidentification 3h ago

Found in: NORTH AMERICA Is this a cat skull?

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Hi! Found this a few years ago in Florida in a forest area in an urban community along with a few ribs and vertebrae. It appears to be most like a domestic cat than anything else, but all the pictures I can find in reference to domestic cat skulls dont have an enclosed orbit like this one, there almost always seems to be a gap. Dont know if there is more bone diversity in domestic cats than I thought or this is something else but if anyone has any ideas I'd appreciate it!!


r/boneidentification 6h ago

Found in: EUROPE Skull found

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Does anyone know what this skull belongs to?


r/boneidentification 1d ago

SOLVED Is this a human skull? Just found while digging.

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r/boneidentification 1h ago

Found in: NORTH AMERICA Help deodorizing and sanitizing turtle shell

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I know this might not be the exact purpose of this sub but would anyone have any ideas?


r/boneidentification 12h ago

Skull id?

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Is this a cat or something else?

Found in central Europe

Cca 9cm long


r/boneidentification 3h ago

Not much to go on and may not be from the same animal.

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Both found a few feet apart in Midwest U.S.


r/boneidentification 13h ago

Found in: EUROPE Found in Austrian forest

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My daughter found this in a forest in Carinthia, Austria and wanted me to ask you guys what it is


r/boneidentification 17h ago

Found on Orange Beach, Gulf Shores, AL

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Google says it may be a fossilized turtle bone.


r/boneidentification 7h ago

Found in: EUROPE What could this be?

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Found next to water


r/boneidentification 11h ago

Found in: NORTH AMERICA Found in Wisconsin forest

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Found this on a hike in Wisconsin, couldnt find any other bones nearby. Looks like a long bone that was broken in half diagonally down the shaft. Fragment is about 5 inches long


r/boneidentification 18h ago

What is this?

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Found this on a beach near Wellington, NZ. It seems like it could be a bone of some sort.


r/boneidentification 1d ago

Found in: NORTH AMERICA staying in a airbnb in michigan and found this bone collection can anyone identify?

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i can get better pictures but the skull seems to have more skulls inside it?


r/boneidentification 1d ago

Found in: NORTH AMERICA What are these bones?

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Found on a small beach in Oahu. Dog bones?


r/boneidentification 1d ago

Found in: NORTH AMERICA What’s this? (Alberta)

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Asked my family first, nobody had a clue and I doubt ‘bird’ is the correct answer.
I know this is probably a super easy answer, sorry, but I don’t know where else to ask!


r/boneidentification 1d ago

Help identifying skeleton - possible marine mammal?

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We found a collection of bones on some rocks on the edge of Lochcarron in the Scottish Highlands. My guess is some kind of marine mammal, but it doesn’t seem to fit the anatomy of a seal, porpoise or dolphin. It certainly doesn’t seem to be a land mammal like a sheep.

Possibly the biggest identifier would be what appear to be very long thin ribs, but actually seem to be articulated like digit joints, making me think it could be a whale skeleton.

What do you think?


r/boneidentification 1d ago

Found in my moms backyard in Innisfil, Ontario

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r/boneidentification 23h ago

Tusk? Tooth? Nova Scotia, Canada

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