Rogue Taxidermy

Photo of the Day #20: Burrowing Owl

Arctic Wildfowl Photo Special

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Cave bearUrsus spelaeus Rosenmüller, 1794Ursidae; Carnivora; Mammalia; ChordataCave bears roamed Europe, including Great Britain, during the mid to late Pleistocene (within the last million years), becoming extinct some 20,000 years ago. As their name suggests (as does the spelaeus in the specific name), they dwelled, or at le

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Thecodontosaurus antiquus Morris, 1843Thecodontosauridae; Saurischia; Sauropsida; ChordataThecodontosaurus has often been nicknamed 'The Bristol Dinosaur'. Its remains were first found in Clifton, near the Avon Gorge, and remains one of the earliest dinosaurs yet to be found in Britain. The remains date to the L

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Scelidosaurus harrisonii Owen, 1861Scelidosauridae; Ornithischia; Sauropsida; ChordataThe Thyreophora are a group of armoured dinosaurs, most familiar as stegosaurs and ankylosaurs. The thyreophorans split into these two groups fairly early in their evolution, splitting from the basal ornithischians (bird-hipped dinosaurs: t

It's a shrew opossum!
Another virtual point goes to J. Velez-Juarbe for guessing that the skull belongs to a caenolestid.Dusky shrew opossumCaenolestes fuliginosus Tomes, 1863Caenolestidae; Paucituberculata; Mammalia; ChordataCambridge Zoology MuseumJune 2008The caenolestids, shrew opossums, rat opossums, or flap-l

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Rhamphorhynchus jessoni (Lydekker, 1890)Rhamphorhynchidae; Pterosauria; Sauropsida; ChordataThe rhamphorhynchoids were a group of pterosaurs, basal to the short-tailed pterodactyloids. It used to be thought that they formed a true grouping, but it seems that only the pterodactyloids form a true group within the Pterosaur