Hey! Im just beginning to become interested in collecting skulls and skeletons and have a question. I found an dead otter that was slighty rotten last year. I took the head and skinned it, put in a mesh oinion
bag and tied up to a dock in the BC coast, near vancouver island. It is completly submerged in seawater. A full year later im going back to that area, and im wondering... what type of condition do you think the skull and teeth will be in when i retrive it?
thanks!
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I'd say skull in several pieces, seperated at the sutures and teeth fallen out and missing...
but you may just find your skull without any teeth...There has been some work with zoo plankton and bone cleaning here on the coast. I forget which university is doing it, but the thought is to replace the need for beetles. The zoo plankters do as good or better job, but the cartilage doesn't dry out or get cut away, so you can get a skeleton that is still connected by the cartilage. The trick I hear is to find the correct depth where the proper zoo plankters are located at which to suspend your skeleton.
the teeth wont be missing because of the mesh bag. and if the cartalige will stay on any skulls and skeletons i puy down there, then my dreams just came true! thanks bill!
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