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A scary headless Morrison fm Ornithopod from when I visited the BYU Museum of Paleontology last week. Sorry for the blurry pics

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This is Cuterebra ascarides (Scudder, 1877). Members of the genus Cuterebra are botflies, which are known to parasitize mammals, burrowing through the flesh under the skin. The thought of a 1 cm+ maggot burrowing under my skin is pretty scary to me. 

 

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18 minutes ago, Crusty_Crab said:

This is Cuterebra ascarides (Scudder, 1877). Members of the genus Cuterebra are botflies, which are known to parasitize mammals, burrowing through the flesh under the skin. The thought of a 1 cm+ maggot burrowing under my skin is pretty scary to me.

 

The way you present it, i can't say i enjoy it. But it definitely fit as a scary fossil. ;) 

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18 hours ago, Denis Arcand said:

The thought of a 1 cm+ maggot burrowing under my skin is pretty scary to me.

Yes it is scary! As a veterinarian, I loved botfly season. A dog or cat would present with a small diagnostic hole in its skin. A quick little enlargement with a scalpel blade and then tweezers and out popped a fat wiggly maggot!!! The look on clients' faces were "precious". Thanks for bringing back memories for me.

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:sick:

 

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OUTIL POUR MESURER VOS FOSSILES : ici

Ma bibliothèque PDF 1 (Poissons et sélaciens récents & fossiles) : ici
Ma bibliothèque PDF 2 (Animaux vivants - sans poissons ni sélaciens) : ici
Mâchoires sélaciennes récentes : ici
Hétérodontiques et sélaciens : ici
Oeufs sélaciens récents : ici
Otolithes de poissons récents ! ici

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6 hours ago, IAMLOVE311 said:

If you look close you can see his teeth! 

 

And a bullet hold in the head, that is scary.

 

 

 

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This year, I'm giving you a scary rock for Halloween ...

 

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