InfoHungryMom Posted November 5, 2018 Share Posted November 5, 2018 I found 2 separate sets of these- 1 set on 2 different days in the Danube River in Germany. These look like teeth, but when I cleaned them they began to smell like skunk.... the more I cleaned, the stinkier they got. Anyone know if they are teeth, a plant, or something else entirely? It was very difficult to determine. (My husband is a dentist and initially he was certain they were not teeth, but after being cleaned, it was even more ambiguous.) I finally gave-up, took this picture, and threw them away... FAR AWAY! Thank you! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walt Posted November 5, 2018 Share Posted November 5, 2018 Is that the only picture you took? Will need different angles and something for scale. Everything is generated through your own will power ~ Ray Bradbury Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ynot Posted November 5, 2018 Share Posted November 5, 2018 Modern horse. 1 Darwin said: " Man sprang from monkeys." Will Rogers said: " Some of them didn't spring far enough." My Fossil collection - My Mineral collection My favorite thread on TFF. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abyssunder Posted November 5, 2018 Share Posted November 5, 2018 It looks like a bovid (maybe Bos) lower m3 tooth, to me, but an occlusal view may help in the ID. 2 " We are not separate and independent entities, but like links in a chain, and we could not by any means be what we are without those who went before us and showed us the way. " Thomas Mann My Library Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaleoRon Posted November 5, 2018 Share Posted November 5, 2018 From that angle it looks similar to cow teeth that I have found. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcbshark Posted November 5, 2018 Share Posted November 5, 2018 I'm in the bovine camp as well 1 Every once in a great while it's not just a big rock down there! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ynot Posted November 5, 2018 Share Posted November 5, 2018 Cow was My second thought, but still say it is modern. 1 Darwin said: " Man sprang from monkeys." Will Rogers said: " Some of them didn't spring far enough." My Fossil collection - My Mineral collection My favorite thread on TFF. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
InfoHungryMom Posted November 6, 2018 Author Share Posted November 6, 2018 Do cows teeth smell like skunk, or have you not kissed one (or been close enough) to know? Phew, did they smell horrific! I thought I might have discovered part of a “skunk weed” plant! I guess the deterioration.... yucky! The bottoms did look like it was from a plant. They were about 2 or 3 inches tall & wide.... blech! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caldigger Posted November 9, 2018 Share Posted November 9, 2018 Certainly looks to be Bovid. That "Stank" is what we in the world call rotting flesh. If you think that's bad, smell a decaying cat sometime. Guaranteed you won't get that smell out of your sinuses for days! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
InfoHungryMom Posted November 9, 2018 Author Share Posted November 9, 2018 Cal, like I said- my husband is a Periodontist, and the “roots” looked like bark or grass, and they literally smelled like a skunk. I am so naive... people would enter my business, and then I would smell skunk... I wondered why there were suddenly so many suburban skunks! Since my children explained that, I have associated the smell of skunk with pot. I thought it was some kind of “skunk weed”... the “teeth”had a double layer at the top and an opening at the top.... but why would “rotting flesh in bleach smell like skunk? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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