Wouldn’t it be neat if you could identify a skull in the woods just by looking at it? There are a few distinguishing characteristics that you can see when analyzing a skull that can reveal to you what role it played in its environment.
Animal Skull Identification Guide - Waking Up Wild
Our Comprehensive animal skull identification guide with over 100 animal skull photos will help you identify animal skulls from around the world.
Animal Skull Identification Database - Skull Index Home
From researchers to students and artists, or people who are simply interested in bones or skulls, and want to look at photos or compare skulls against their collection for identification help! The project is in its early stages, starting development in October 2023.
The physical characteristics of an animal’s skull are clues to how the animal adapted to its environ-ment and what niche it inhabits in it habitat. Teeth, eye position, size and shape can indicate whether the animal is a carnivore, herbivore or omnivore.
What's This Skull?
What’s This Skull? is a free, non-technical identification resource for mammal skulls in the United States. It balances simplicity and detail. The keys are easy to understand so you don’t have to be an expert to use them, but detailed enough to identify skulls down to the species level if desired.
Identify animal skulls - The Wildlife Trusts
Found a bird skull or mammal bone in the UK? Our ID guide below has some of the most common animal skulls you might find. Even if you aren’t able to identify the species you can still tell some really interesting stuff about the animal and how it lives its life.
Elbroch, M. 2006. Animal Skulls. A Guide to North American Species ...
Aug 20, 2007 · Animal Skulls is a unique reference and identification guide to skulls of 275 vertebrate species of North America. The book is extremely well illustrated with 1,434 black-and-white drawings and 123 color photographs.
Porcupine - Pennsylvania Game Commission
Porcupines have four incisors—two above and two below that are bright orange, strong and adapted to gnawing. Short-legged and stout, a porcupine has a pronounced arch to its back. Its skull is heavily constructed; the small, rounded head has a blunt muzzle, ears almost hidden in fur, and dull black eyes.
Skulls. Animal skulls can give a biologist clues to the diet of the animals and whether the animals tends to be predator or prey. By examining the teeth of the animals and the placement of eye sockets, biologists can gain a better understanding of the role of the animal within the ecosystem.
Identification Guides: Animal Skulls & Bird Feathers
Check out our guides below to help identify different bird feathers & animal skulls. Scroll through our galleries to view fossils, tusks, teeth, claws, fur, & more from animals around the world. Photography By: Michael Jerrard.