On Friday I presented you with this skull for identification:
Quick as a flash SmallCasserole had it identified and discussed and not long afterwards Jake also managed to identify it as belonging to a
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Hello blogosphere! It’s Friday again – the first of the New Year, so I’d like to wish everyone a happy and productive 2010!
Having been on the road for the last couple of weeks I have been struggling to find a suitable mystery object, but here’s one I prepared earlier:
Simple question – what is it? Answers [...]
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I hope you all had an enjoyable Christmas, apologies for the late posting of the answer to Christmas Friday’s mystery object, but better late than never. I must admit that this was a bit of a cheat, because I have posted one of these before, but this time it had antlers and it was gift [...]
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It’s Friday again, but this Friday is a bit different to most since it’s Christmas Day, so a hearty Merry Christmas to you all!
Just because it’s Christmas I see no reason to miss a mystery object, although this one is a bit more festive than usual:
Can you tell what’s under the wrapping paper?
As usual, pop [...]
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On Friday I presented you with a mystery object that I recently had to identify myself:
The upward facing alveolus (tooth socket) for the upper canines is a dead give-away that this a
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It’s a snowy Friday here in London, the Horniman is looking otherworldly – in fact, here’s what it looks like from my office window:
But this brings us no closer to a mystery object. I was thinking of giving you an animal track in the snow, but that would be very limiting, since I only have photos [...]
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On Friday I showed you this beauty:
I posed three questions about this huge snail to tax your minds: what is it, what does it eat and do you think it can fit into its shell? As usual, SmallCasserole and Jim were the first ones there – although not without some clues. This is a
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This Friday I’ve decided to give you something alive and without any bones, for a change:
So two three questions this week, what is this massive mollusc, what does it eat and do you think it can fit all that body into its shell?
Feel free to ask questions in the comments section below – and for those [...]
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On Friday I gave you two pictures of a specimen from the Horniman Museum and asked you what it was:
Some good answers popped up but three of you managed to identify it as a
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Friday again, so it’s time for another mystery object. Any idea what this is?
As usual, feel free to ask questions in the comments section below – I will do my best to answer. Good luck!
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