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The Skull Riddle Thread

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  • #242
    Mickeroo
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    Bottlenose Dolphin?


  • #243
    Adam Khor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,279 ✭✭✭Adam Khor


    Mickeroo wrote: »
    Bottlenose Dolphin?

    Nope, but you are on the right lane :>


  • #244
    Mickeroo
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    Adam Khor wrote: »
    Nope, but you are on the right lane :>

    Dang :D Was pretty much a guess, thought the teeth look too big for a bottlenose Dolphin but the skull is too small to be an Orca!


  • #245
    Adam Khor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,279 ✭✭✭Adam Khor


    Mickeroo wrote: »
    Dang :D Was pretty much a guess, thought the teeth look too big for a bottlenose Dolphin but the skull is too small to be an Orca!

    You're so close, man! So close! :D


  • #246
    Yitzhak Rabin
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    Long beaked dolphin?


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  • #247
    Adam Khor
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    yekahS wrote: »
    Long beaked dolphin?

    Nope. The creature is actually kinda short-nosed.


  • #248
    aidoh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 620 ✭✭✭aidoh


    Is it some kind of terrifying porpoise?


  • #249
    Adam Khor
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    aidoh wrote: »
    Is it some kind of terrifying porpoise?

    Not a porpoise.


  • #250
    Mickeroo
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    Sudden burst of inspiration thanks to the Orca thread ......False Killer Whale?? :o


  • #251
    Adam Khor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,279 ✭✭✭Adam Khor


    Mickeroo wrote: »
    Sudden burst of inspiration thanks to the Orca thread ......False Killer Whale?? :o

    Correct! :D Congrats. I actually hesitated to start the orca thread because I knew someone would guess this haha

    Ur turn


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  • #252
    Mickeroo
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    Adam Khor wrote: »
    Correct! :D Congrats. I actually hesitated to start the orca thread because I knew someone would guess this haha

    Ur turn

    Haha! I totally wouldn't have got it but for the thread lead to me to look up the False Killer Whale on wiki, the teeth looked about right so I thought it was worth a shot :D

    Okay, one of you will probably get this straight away I'm sure:

    OPai9.jpg


  • #253
    Adam Khor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,279 ✭✭✭Adam Khor


    Mickeroo wrote: »
    Haha! I totally wouldn't have got it but for the thread lead to me to look up the False Killer Whale on wiki, the teeth looked about right so I thought it was worth a shot :D

    Okay, one of you will probably get this straight away I'm sure:

    OPai9.jpg

    Looks like a mustelid. A weasel?


  • #254
    Mickeroo
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    Adam Khor wrote: »
    Looks like a mustelid. A weasel?

    It's a mustelid yea, not a weasel though :)


  • #255
    Adam Khor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,279 ✭✭✭Adam Khor


    Mickeroo wrote: »
    It's a mustelid yea, not a weasel though :)

    Right... a marten then?


  • #256
    Mickeroo
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    Adam Khor wrote: »
    Right... a marten then?

    Yea it's a marten, pine to be exact.


  • #257
    Adam Khor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,279 ✭✭✭Adam Khor


    Mickeroo wrote: »
    Yea it's a marten.

    Lucky guess. I was also considering a stoat.

    A very easy extinct one.
    nm_rusos_dinocefalia.jpg


  • #258
    Mickeroo
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    Adam Khor wrote: »

    A very easy extinct one.

    I wouldn't be so sure. :D I think I can picture it from Walking With Beasts but I have no idea of the name. I seem to recall it being rather large and bulky, similar build to a rhino?


  • #259
    Mickeroo
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    Adam Khor wrote: »
    Lucky guess. I was also considering a stoat.

    A very easy extinct one.

    Did some digging...its this guy?
    estemmenosuchus.jpg

    The crowned crocodile/estemmenosuchus? According to the wiki page there's two types but I can't tell which one your pic is.


  • #260
    Adam Khor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,279 ✭✭✭Adam Khor


    Mickeroo wrote: »
    Did some digging...its this guy?
    estemmenosuchus.jpg

    The crowned crocodile/estemmenosuchus? According to the wiki page there's two types but I can't tell which one your pic is.

    It is correct. The one I posted is likely Estemmenosuchus mirabilis. Your turn :>


  • #261
    aidoh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 620 ✭✭✭aidoh


    That's an awful looking creature! :(


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  • #262
    Adam Khor
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    aidoh wrote: »
    That's an awful looking creature! :(

    I actually think its a quite handsome beast XD


  • #263
    aidoh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 620 ✭✭✭aidoh


    I'm googling pictures of therapsid palaeoart now. It's not really a group I ever knew much about but they're mad looking yokes!


  • #264
    Mickeroo
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    aidoh wrote: »
    That's an awful looking creature! :(

    Imagine riding one into battle though! :pac:

    Ok heres one:

    s7lfb.jpg


  • #265
    Adam Khor
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    Mickeroo wrote: »
    Imagine riding one into battle though! :pac:

    Ok heres one:

    s7lfb.jpg

    A tuatara?


  • #266
    Mickeroo
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    Adam Khor wrote: »
    A tuatara?

    Hah yup! I guess I shouldn't have picked an animal that's the only surviving ember of its order!


  • #267
    Adam Khor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,279 ✭✭✭Adam Khor


    Mickeroo wrote: »
    Hah yup! I guess I shouldn't have picked an animal that's the only surviving ember of its order!

    Well, the fact that I was reading about tuataras just yesterday didn´t help either XD

    Here:
    sp3112.jpg


  • #268
    snowstreams
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    A woodpecker?


  • #269
    Adam Khor
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    snowstreams wrote: »
    A woodpecker?

    Yeah, a pileated woodpecker. Guess it was an easy one. :D


  • #270
    snowstreams
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,347 ✭✭✭snowstreams


    Yeah i reckoned it wasnt the Irish one, the great spotted woodpecker, but couldnt figure out which one.


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  • #271
    snowstreams
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    Ok here is my go so!

    178748.jpg

    EDIT: Is the photo a high enough resolution?


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