old moose bones

a couple weeks ago my dad and i went to a different forest, i'm not sure what it was called. We walked for about 5 minutes and we found a ground hog skull! I think someone must have placed it there, because there where no bones around, and it looked 'perfectly placed'.. it just didn't seem natural. oh well, its a skull either way. It made me feel very lucky that we found something so quickly, and i hoped we would find more. Well, my wish came true!


Maybe 10-15 minutes after we found the skull, i saw a bone from a distance. When i went to check it out, I realized there wasn't 1 bone, but a lot of bones! there were some vertebrae, 2 scapula, ribs and a lot of leg bones (femur, tibia, fibula, etc.) . Unfortunately, there was no skull... but i did keep the 2 scapula, and 2 vertebrae.

after that, we started seeing bones EVERYWHERE.
here are some bones we saw that i didn't keep:

a very large bone (do not know what it was)... could only be from something as big as a cow, horse or moose
a bird sternum, it was from a small bird.
2 deer jaws with a couple of teeth
a couple bones here and there

and other bones i did keep :

The last thing i found was definitively the best: moose bones.
Two of the reasons that they are so special is these bones are VERY old. I know this because the bones no longer felt like bones, they felt like wood, there are very large cracks in them, they are stained green and brown, they broke very very easily and Moss and plants where growing on them! the other reason they are special is because there aren't many moose in the area or any area near where i found them. The moose are all up north. Since they are old, maybe there was a now 'extinct' population of moose living in the area.

out of the bones i kept 1 vertebrae and 3 teeth (I think one is a molar and the 2 others are pre-molars). I did not take anything else because i did not know if i could get the moss and plants off, and the bones looked and felt so weak i did not know if they would last very long.Although i did not take some more moose bones, I am very satisfied with our walk!