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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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 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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On Friday I presented you with this delightful looking creature’s skull:
and asked you what it was. SmallCasserole and Jim vied to reach the correct answer, with the physicist narrowly beating the biologist to the solution using brute force of reasoning (rather than attempting a comparative approach). However, Jim did step up and suggest a more [...]
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Last week’s mystery object turned out to be very easy for most of you, so this week I have decided to give you something a bit more taxing:
What do you think this freaky looking skull belongs to? As usual, suggestions and any questions below in the comments section – I will try to provide useful [...]
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It’s Friday and that means it’s time for my 18th mystery object. This week I have picked a skull (I can hear the groans already), but it’s a cute one and when I asked Melissa (who is not a biologist) what it is she got it in three guesses. I asked her how she worked [...]
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On Friday I gave you this mystery object:
and after a long bout of Q&A Fia managed to get the correct answer – it is indeed a
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