I think we have touched on this topic before.

What do all think this skull could be?


http://mysteryskull.tripod.com/

Edit: click on link above to access pictures

I'v not seen this before, and it looks really weird but reading about it leads to loads of questions.
Why do they have to destroy it to find out about its DNA? Surely you would just need a sample to grind down?
How do they Know its not an archeological find? They have not mentioned how old they think it is.
To me it looks like the infant skull of an early ancestor to the Rhino which had a large plate of bone across the forhead to protect it from damage while fighting.
In fact quite a few members of the early cloven hooved mammals had large plates of bone for protection, Elk & Bison for example.

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Yeap, been pretty much done to death;

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It's a pelvis of some sort, can't see how you'd make it out to be a skull.

Ah, yes the pelvis. Its most likly some sort of bio-mutation, or just a mutation, or an alien monster that was put to sleep!

c'mon folks.......big ARNIE fought it's father in predator

Looking at it as an osteologist would, there are a couple of things that jump out:

1. It is not complete
2. It is not symmetric
3. There are some very robust features.
4. There are unusual points of articulation
5. The remaining sutures seem very loose if they are at all sutures.

The last 4 would tend to lead most people away from the conclusion that this was a skull, at least in the sense that we know it. If it were and that creatures physiology was anything like what we normally observe, it would be a mishapen and very VERY muscled head that this creature had.

I lean away from pelvis also, it appears far too curved and there is no particular place that looks suitable for a leg bone to articulate.

It looks faked to me. I'm not saying this because I can't identify it as a certian bone (I am only good with human skeletons) but there is a lack of credibility on that site. For instance, there are no measurements other than a weight given and there are no explinations given as to what it might be (other than that which is submitted by users) nor how they decided which was the correct way to orient the bone or even bothering to name any features on it or compare it to other species. Bones are seldom if ever best identified though DNA testing, morphology is a much better method except for the most precise decisions.

I think it's an alien skull......I mean there was metal found near by it ...NOT FROM THIS EARTH.....according to the text.

It might be a Dinosaur Skull ... I just found a website that might have the same skull ...


http://www.fossilsasart.com/extinct_dino_s...kulls_repl.html

The pics don't show up for me! All I get is "Image hosted by tripod" boxes.

It appears to be.......hmmm.....T...R....I....P...O...D?
A tripod something.....interesting. Was it bipedal? Carnivorous or herbivorous, these are the burning questions.....

Hello. I'm from Bulgaria and they aired a movie on this topic. Most of the scientists here think that it's a part of a skeleton of a cow. A vet removed certain bones from the pelvis (I think it was the pelvis but I'm not very sure) and without these bones, the pelvis looks like this skull. They also interviewed the man that found the "skull" and he said that he had a dream in which some aliens dressed in silver clothes told him where to look for some remains. He may be a liar though...

Hello and Welcome, chicatillo!

Thanks for the info. Do you remember any names of the people in the movie? The vet, or the man that found it? Or maybe where they said it was found?

i know it's not a skull, but I must agree that it does resemble the hunter from Predator! Enough to make me laugh when I saw it.

whatever it is, it does not remotely resemble a skull.

Hello again. After some serious detective work I found out that the man who found the skull is Vasko Stamov. He's from Plovdiv (I live there too) and the skull was found in the Rhodopi mountains. First, some scientists thought that the skull belonged to a giant turtle. Then, they changed their mind and stated that it was a part of a human pelvis. Some scientists made some tests about the carbon 14 that could be found in the skull but the results were never announced. I got this brief info from http://www.starmen.org/. And that's a link to the story - http://www.stardocs.hit.bg/alienscull.htm

Found another pic of the skull (quite by accident) that gives a bit of scale to the thing. Unfortunately, there isn't any caption other than (Allegedly Alien Skull Found in Bulgaria."

hmm.....either the skull of evil predator or some young bull ran down right at the center of the face by a trailer
seriously,no idea....

Well, at least this photo shows a size reference, and by the looks of it, it could very well be a child's pelvis bone, that has been worn down, and had the top layer removed.

I have seen several opinions that the thing may be a pelvis of some kind. Here are pictures of a human male and a cat.
Human Male

Cat

I have a hard time believing it to be a mammal pelvis, simply because there is way too much bone in the "skull." The whole structure of the thing just seems to be wrong for a pelvis of any kind.

My two cents? The individuals in the background seem totally bored, I mean really bored..... If it were something 'special' shouldn't they at least be ...... more enthusiastic? Hmmmmm, maybe not.

I just went through almost every thread on this topic we have on the board , I counted 3 , that dosen't include the one I started which was lost during the last server change . Any way it's believed to be a horse sacrum a part of the horse found around the same place as the pelvis and the cocssyx .


this is a human sacrum with the cocssyx visible at the base of the picture .

There is to much of the bone structure missing to be able to properly identify it. You can see where bits have either eroded or been removed. Could be any number of skulls, from a cow to a bull! Even as some say, a pelvis bone? And where’s the rest of the skeleton? Did this mysterious voice that told him where to find the head, be gracious enough to explain where the rest of the body is?

i doubt that is a skull, no articulations for the mouth, and if that is the place for any kind of nose, well, the nose would cover the eye cavity, I dont think thats normal.
and that... hat!, what is that? i hope the brain wasn't in there

No, seriously, skull... dont think so... at least, my opinion

Looks like a pelvic bone or on of those things from (urgh) Independence Day

I don't know what bone it is for sure but I am sure it's not a skull. Or alien, for that matter.

It does sort of look like one of those things from Independence day. Good eye.

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Hi Benjo I was just too lazy to check the forums for a while. judging by that reaction you seem fond of me. That's a good thing.

I'm fond of most people. Very friendly I am!

Its a crab shell whithout the top and it is upside down.

It looks like a predator skull...not sure...does predator really exist..

I haven't seen that picture before but to me it has to be a skull of some kind of animal to me it just looks that way.

the "skull" resembles plenty of things from mutiple creatures, but the fact is, not matter what u take it to be, it is damaged, u can clearly tell it is missing pieces. To me, it looks like the skull of a medium sized creature, and if u look to the lower area of it, u can tell, if it is a skull, the creature had small tusks, honestly, i think it looks like a boar

Very weird, but as for what it is, maybe no one will ever know