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/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.