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Tyler · Site Admin Joined: 06 Mar 2006 Posts: 12865

And anyone else who might have a clue.

A nice lady posted this on my facebook page. I believe the lady found it at the beach or somewhere near Mobile, AL.

" To Cindi "Do you know what animal this might be from and is that a sea bean?"

topdog15 · Posted: Thu Aug 22, 2013 12:42 pm Post subject:

Looks like it's from a bird. The keel would be where the breast muscles attach to the skeleton. Judging by the size of the keel I would expect it to have been a pretty good flyer.
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speckled.trout · Full Grown Flour Bluffian Joined: 30 Aug 2012 Posts: 1190

the top of a Sleestack skull

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and a walnut.

Very Happy

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Central Scrutinizer · Posted: Thu Aug 22, 2013 1:18 pm Post subject:

topdog15 got the bird parts right. It's the breast-plate from a heron, I believe. The pointy parts on the bottom-side view is where the ribs attach. I have one just like it.

The other "sea-bean" is a water hickory nut. They growth on moist but well-drained loamy or silty soils in the Mississippi River Valley and along some Coastal Plain streams. Real common on the beach here.

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Edited after the speckled.trout post:

Those Sleestacks creeped the be-Jesus out of me when I was a kid!!!! Shocked

Tyler · Site Admin Joined: 06 Mar 2006 Posts: 12865

B-1 83 · Posted: Thu Aug 22, 2013 7:01 pm Post subject:

Oil Field Trash II · Full Grown Flour Bluffian Joined: 25 Mar 2008 Posts: 1560

it's a pterodactyl skull cap... used to be really common in the bluff.

redfin21 · Posted: Thu Aug 22, 2013 9:34 pm Post subject:

Looks like the upper skull piece from The mermaid show they had on the Discovery channel a few months ago. Looks like we have mermaids in the Gulf. Very Happy

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