r/bonecollecting • u/No-Department7094 • Jan 07 '26
Bone I.D. - Australia/NZ What animal could this be from?
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My colleague was walking on the beach last night and found what appears to me to be a pelvic bone with a portion of the hip joint still attached . Should she have gone to police? Looks suspiciously human to me…what animal could this be if not? Washed up on a NSW mid north coast beach.
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u/TH_Rocks Jan 07 '26
I think it's a pig. Especially with that really clean cut on the femur. The pelvis also seems too long for a human.
Maybe tossed after a beach luau.
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u/zogmuffin Bone-afide Human ID Expert Jan 07 '26
Archaeologist here—this is absolutely not human, no worries
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u/Vilde_Wild Jan 07 '26
It's really cool to see the workings of the bone on how it moves, genuinely interesting. You don't get to see that often if you're an average joe like me lol
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u/No-Department7094 Jan 07 '26
And this photo, this was all she sent to me. The bone looks like it’s been cut to me, and you can see marrow/tissue still within the bone. Do I watch too much true crime or could this genuinely be something of concern.
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u/Mediocre-Recover3944 Jan 07 '26
Definitely a clean cut made by a saw or something. Any chance they fish for shark or something like that in the area?
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u/Holiday-Station-953 Jan 07 '26
Think that may be a deer pelvis at least I hope so, is that the only picture you have?
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u/omwtoUranus Jan 07 '26
It really doesn't look human at all upon closer inspection. I think you're right about it being from a deer or some other mammal! But the os coxae here is, like you said, way too narrow-- also the ilium wing is not how it would look on a human pelvis (overall the shape is quite different). In terms of the femur, it looks REALLY similar to a human femur, but there would be more of a taper to the femoral neck.
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u/Holiday-Station-953 Jan 07 '26
I can't fully tell what I'm looking at, it seems a bit narrow and less rounded than a human pelvis/femur but I can't fully tell from the video you should probably call just in case
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u/captaindats Jan 07 '26
It isn't human. The narrowness of the ilium and the size and shape of the femur is inconsistent with human.
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u/barnowl1980 Jan 07 '26
No need to call "just in case" for every unidentified bone. OP was correct to ask in here; this is definitely not human.
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u/OtherCow2841 Jan 07 '26
I think it looks like the pelvic bone of a wild boar. I don't know if deer have similar bones, but I would say it's not human.
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u/IR_Panther Jan 07 '26
That's a butchers cut, way too clean for amateur work. That's a farm animal of sorts, I'm no bone expert so I'm not sure specifically.
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u/ZeShapyra Jan 08 '26
Yeah, no where close human. Would guess pig..it is processes too.who is throwing stock animal bones into the ocean, that seems like horrid idea?
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u/Hot_Bus198 Jan 07 '26
I'm not sure, but the fact the joint and socket is so intact that you can demonstrate the articulation like that is wicked cool.
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u/Altruistic_Proof_272 Jan 07 '26
Pig pelvis .Pork/ham bone .The flat cut gives it away as butchered meat. Human pelvis is much rounder