Repost from tumblr too lazy to rewrite description I've been dissecting owl pellets whoo :

What an awesome find last night! Was working on the last whole owl pellet I had because my hands were too jittery to pick up the tiny bones for sorting, even with tweezers (ahaha i’m awesome), and the pellet was really dense, like there is so much fur, and most of it isn’t like the crumbly thick masses like the other pellets, but like, luxurious soft fur that was just really hard on the outside. I can’t help but wonder what kind of fur this meal had, ahaha.

Anyways, right in the middle of this luxurious fur caccoon was this beauty. At one point, while holding it and cleaning it off, I thought I broke a piece and freaked, but it turned out it was my imagination. There still is a scrap of fur stuck to the back of the skull, which I am not going to remove because it is really stuck on there, and I don’t want to pull the skull apart (though it has stood up well to my handling so far, not taking chances). I think it gives the skull a nice character, connects it back to itself.

I had removed lower jaws from the pellet as well, though I removed those first and sorted them with the other jaws I’d been finding (I didn’t anticipate such a nice skull to be found and was just sorting stuff) but they are nice and big and have all their teeth so I know exactly which ones they are. Hopefully I can clean them off as well, and put them together with the skull top.

BUT YES I’m pretty excited. Look how nice a skull that is! Aren’t skulls amazing? (I just looked up some skulls, might be a vole skull? HMmmm research to be done…)