Unusually Large Silver-Haired Bat Skull

Name: Unusually Large Silver-Haired Bat Skull
Brand: Strange Species
Price: 65.0 USD
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Unusually Large Silver-Haired Bat Skull

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The perfect addition to your cabinet of curiosities, assemblage of oddities, or natural history collection, this skull of a Silver-Haired Bat (Lasionycteris noctivagans) 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, and everything spooky. The mandible is a separate piece, which allows for study of the animal's jaw action as well as closer inspection of all parts from the palate to the dentition. The skull has an interesting flat-snouted appearance that provides an excellent contrast of evolutionary osteology compared to other available species like the vampire bat or wrinkle-faced bat.

Want something a little smaller? This species is also available as a conservation edition! See the product photos here for a size comparison.

Measurements

Approx 8 x 4.5 x 4.75 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

"Lasionycteris noctivagans (MSB:Mamm:12862)" (https://skfb.ly/o9Suu) 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 assembled from CTs of 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 slightly broken or otherwise imperfect. I have made some repairs digitally to try to ensure the models are as complete as possible, but please be aware that the model may not be 100% flawless for scientific purposes.

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