Friday mystery object #15

It’s Friday again and I feel it may be time to introduce an object from the area of my original training (that’s palaeontology). Imagine that you’re me, searching through the drawers in a museum and you come across this:

What is it from? It looks scaly, but that’s about all you can tell from looking at [...]

Friday mystery object #13

Today’s mystery object has been selected by a very helpful work experience volunteer who was assisting me in the collections yesterday, so my thanks to Harrison! He is rather more cruel than me, so there’s no multiple choice on this – we just want you to see if you can work out what it is. [...]

Friday mystery object #12

I am still without internet at home, so apologies for slow responses to comments and the lower quality of my recent posts.
This Friday’s mystery object is pretty straight-forward, a simple case of ‘what is it?’

If you think you know what this is just leave a comment below – I will attempt to respond to any [...]

Friday mystery object #7 answer

Here’s what I said on Friday, just before 7am:
Just posted the Friday Mystery Object. Not a skull, no options and just one clue (for now): http://wp.me/pvJGH-6M You’ll never get it! #FMO
[PaoloViscardi on Twitter, Friday 4th September]
Of course, I was hoping to be proved wrong, but Gimpy managed to prove me wrong in record time (about an hour). [...]

Friday mystery object #7

Since there have been calls for some variety (skulls not good enough for you eh?) and there have even been accusations of the FMO being “too easy” I have decided to unleash a tricky one for you this week.
Simple questions, what is it and what’s it made of?
No poll this week, just leave your thoughts [...]

Friday mystery object #5 answer

I must say that I’m impressed with this week’s response. Most of you correctly identified this skull:
It does indeed belong to a 

Friday mystery object #5

Since there was so much interest in last week’s mystery object, I’ve decided to stay with the same theme, but a different specimen.

Friday mystery object #4 answer

The mystery object I showed you on Friday was this:
The correct answer was in fact

Friday mystery object #4

Cool natural history stuff from the museum – a different angle (an internal one) on something familiar… can you tell what it is?

You can put your thoughts in the comments section below

Friday mystery object #3

More poorly labelled stuff I’ve found at work this week – do you know what this is and where it came from?
I’ve decided to trial multiple choice answers for this one, so please vote on what you think it is! [N.B. don't forget to hit the "vote" button after making your selection!]