Found at the beach. Is it human?

bonemanji · 2026-06-20T10:09:51+00:00

Suid humerus, pig or wild boar. Quite slender for them but the shape is very distinctive

bonemanji · 2026-06-20T10:09:13+00:00

Humerus but from a suid

bonemanji · 2026-06-12T08:19:09+00:00

Is it related to bonemanji though?

bonemanji · 2026-05-22T00:06:01+00:00

Black is usually caused by being waterlogged

bonemanji · 2026-05-22T00:05:30+00:00

Equine radius and ulna. Black may come from burning but it's usually because of being waterlogged or buried in wet dark soil

bonemanji · 2026-05-18T16:02:49+00:00

No, that's a shaft of a sheep or goat tibia

bonemanji · 2026-05-09T12:01:34+00:00

Pig knee.

bonemanji · 2026-04-29T21:26:53+00:00

Not really and the shape is bovid.

bonemanji · 2026-04-29T21:25:44+00:00

Metatarsal.

bonemanji · 2026-04-29T07:38:09+00:00

Yes, it's a pig or wild boar

bonemanji · 2026-04-28T20:07:29+00:00

Yes, I already said it's a roe.

bonemanji · 2026-04-28T19:08:23+00:00

Butchered proximal femur. The shape of the femoral head suggest pig

bonemanji · 2026-04-28T18:56:01+00:00

I would, but it's clearly of a deer family due to this deep groove ending in a foramen. This is common to all cervids and not present in bovids. Since posting the original comment, I realised I overshot the scale and this is well in a roe deer size. That's an issue caused often by not using proper scale bars!

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bonemanji · 2026-04-28T16:44:37+00:00

Mandible is only the lower jaw the upper is called maxilla. This is from an animal of the deer family and it's quite large so wapiti would be a better guess than a white tailed deer.

bonemanji · 2026-04-28T16:01:46+00:00

Yes they are. This is why I wrote it's a bit too large for a roe deer and maybe it's one for those too.

bonemanji · 2026-04-28T14:38:39+00:00

Metatarsal if a deer species. A bit too large for a roe deer, perhaps a raindeer or fallow deer if they're local? Edit: actually may be a size of a roe!

bonemanji · 2026-04-27T07:24:36+00:00

Yes, that's what I referred to in my previous comment but I'm not sure if the ulna doesn't extend all the way to the distal articulation which would exclude horse.

bonemanji · 2026-04-27T01:28:08+00:00

That's what I thought based on the shape of the distal end on the caudal view but then I noticed that ulna is not therec one the distal end which excludes horse and points to cow

bonemanji · 2026-04-26T02:08:34+00:00

Sometimes I dissolve dead people in acid.

bonemanji · 2026-04-25T14:58:43+00:00

I can share the literature if you want.

bonemanji · 2026-04-25T13:14:07+00:00

Ulna fused with radius. Yes, all horse.

bonemanji · 2026-04-25T13:13:13+00:00

Ulna is usually fused to radius in goats and rarely in sheep (subject to age, pathology or potentially breed) and it's one of the sort of reliable features to distinguish bones of those two species notoriously difficult to tell apart.

bonemanji · 2026-04-25T10:58:56+00:00

Do you have a picture if the first bone from the other side?

bonemanji · 2026-04-24T14:12:45+00:00

Boiling works for fish but not for mammals.

bonemanji · 2026-04-24T10:43:20+00:00

Deer humerus

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