r/species • u/Practical_Parfait181 • 16d ago

What is this?

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Found on the south west coast of sweden.

If you look in the second picture it is 15cm wide

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u/Spotted_Towhee123 16d ago

It’s the skull of some type of dolphin, not sure about the species. Very cool that you found it with the mandible still attached!

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u/Shrewzs 13d ago

Second this, it is some kind of Marine Mammal :)

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u/rmbug 16d ago

Seems like a Harbor porpoise, but I've heard cetacean skeletons can get tricky with speciating. That said, that's my educated guess.

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u/Dirtheavy 16d ago

that looks like the head of a dead goose

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u/Practical_Parfait181 16d ago

I don’t think we have that kind of big birds in sweden. Also no holes for the nostrils.

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u/NoPoopOnFace 16d ago

How did an American alligator get all the way to Sweden?