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Curiously Large Southern Yellow Bat Skull

Curiously Large Southern Yellow Bat Skull

$65.00 USD
$65.00 USD
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The perfect addition to your cabinet of curiosities, assemblage of oddities, or natural history collection, this skull of a Southern Yellow Bat (Lasiurus ega) is larger than life. Literally.

This skull been greatly enlarged for display and for study, and individually 3D printed in durable resin. The resulting specimen is sharply detailed, faithfully reproduced, and a beautiful art object on its own.

This perfectly unusual piece will add a little mystery to any bone collection, and makes a great gift for anyone interested in science, anatomy, Vulture Culture, or bats!

The Southern Yellow Bat is a bit of an understudied species, so a lot of their habits are not well understood, but they do love to roost in the dead leaves that hang from palm trees. If you have ornamental palms, and you live in the Southern Yellow Bat's habitat (this includes much of Central and South America, as well as parts of Texas, Arizona, and southern California), you can help the bats by leaving your trees a little shaggy! After all, what's more ornamental in a palm tree than a bunch of napping bats?

My favorite features of this skull are the huge nasal cavity, and that the roots of a few of the upper teeth actually go all the way through the skull and emerge into the orbital sockets.

Measurements

7 x 4.5 x 4.25 inches

Materials

3D printed resin

Care Instructions

Resin will yellow when exposed even briefly to UV or sunlight; do not place your skull in a sunny location or near grow lights. Click here for more information on 3D print care and tips on painting.

Additional information

"Lasiurus ega (MSB:Mamm:238749)" (http://skfb.ly/o9TOq) by Biodiversity is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

SCIENTIFIC ACCURACY
These unsettlingly large skulls look incredible in any bone collector's hoard, but they're also valuable scientific learning tools, allowing anatomical study and up-close examination of what would normally be a very small, very delicate, and fairly rare skull to find in a typical bone collection.
Each bat skull is reproduced from a detailed 3D scan of a real bone specimen, and so is anatomically accurate, right down to the delicate structures in the nose and the anatomy in the skull's interior! But because the original skulls are extremely small and fragile, these reproductions may replicate areas where the originals were broken or missing parts. You'll normally be able to spot these areas easily, as the same structure on the other side will be intact. Please be aware that the model may not be 100% complete for scientific purposes.

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