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The snow and ice has arrived where I live in Alaska so need something to look forward to for next year. Will share a trip I had in April when the pandemic closed my office so did what was recommended with social distancing about as far as you can go in Alaska. I made arrangements for fuel and loaded up my home built aircraft called a Glastar with a friend and his son to accompany in another aircraft and headed down the Alaska Peninsula on an adventure. About half way down we came across a dead walrus and were able to salvage the tusks which is legal and will make nice cribbage boards som
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Hey FFFriends- I basically joined because I found this while kicking around tidepools on Agate Beach in Northern California. It was 50 feet from a whale carcass, so I think I just assumed for sake of size and locale it was a caudal vertebra from a whale. The find was obscured from years of tide pool living (kelp, worms, coralline algae), so after some delicate work I finally got it cleaned. Now I am less sure it's a vertebra. Can anyone help either confirm its origin in a Cenozoic whale tail, or is it something like a whale humerus shorn of its ball socket? A big stubby vestig
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Beach combing on the Hudson River around Peekskill this weekend I came across this. It appears to be a tooth, I suspected it was maybe a horse. I'd love to know if anyone has thoughts on what it came from and whether you think it truly is a fossil?
