A pile of bones and animal parts were found by the East Gloucester neighborhood kids on Niles Beach Sunday. We are wondering if one of our readers could help us identify what we are looking at here. Thank you 🙂
There were several of these starry shaped things and this is the largest one. There is some kind of cartilage base from which they extend.
This is hard and and thin. We were holding up to the light but the sun had gone down. It was somewhat translucent when earlier the light had been shining through it.
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There were several of these starry shaped things and this is the largest one. There is some kind of cartilage base from which they extend.
This is hard and and thin. We were holding up to the light but the sun had gone down. It was somewhat translucent when earlier the light had been shining through it.
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Box or puffer fish. sunfish wild guess only showing shaped like the bone structure? Dave
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Thanks Dave 🙂
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Most likely the cartilage (pectoral radials) from skate fins. http://www.marinebiodiversity.ca/skatesandrays/Internal%20Anatomy%20Overall.htm
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Thank you Mary Kay, will forward this info to my friend Michelle 🙂 Rebecca Visnick at Maritime Gloucester invited us to drop off the specimens.
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