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[-] recreationalplacebos@midwest.social 59 points 7 months ago

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

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 11 points 7 months ago
[-] recreationalplacebos@midwest.social 17 points 7 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 3 points 7 months ago
[-] KingJalopy@lemm.ee 4 points 7 months ago

You can tell by the pixels

[-] steal_your_face@lemmy.ml 4 points 7 months ago
[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago
[-] Roccobot@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago

Thanks! 😍

[-] DessertStorms@kbin.social 9 points 7 months ago
[-] Roccobot@lemmy.world 5 points 7 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 7 months ago* (last edited 7 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 7 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 7 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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