#bones gone bad – @bettalbimarginata on Tumblr

Abnormal Roe Deer Skull.

I read somewhere that antlers are essentially a type of modified, domesticated bone cancer. Guess this is what happens when your domesticated bone cancer goes feral.

A lot of those projections don’t appear to have the normal texture and separation that antlers do, particularly those pale white areas on the right. Does anyone know, would those have shed along with the normal antlers, or are they probably permanent?

Some of the projections seem like they might still have been covered in skin at the time of death. I wonder what this poor thing looked like alive.

#probably lumpy #animal death #skulls #abnormal osteology #bones gone bad