Bones!

May 14, 2015 11:28 AM

Pink bones. Yellow bones. Green bones. Blue bones. Purple bones.
posted by bismol (9 comments total)

Weird! I never knew!

I'm glad my work doesn't involve me having to process squirrels for display :( #treerats4evah
posted by Ogre Lawless at 11:46 AM on May 14, 2015

Fluorescing bones! Neat.
posted by tchemgrrl at 11:51 AM on May 14, 2015

Taste the rainbow!
posted by psoas at 11:59 AM on May 14, 2015

Your bones. My bones. Bone's bones. Bone bone bone.
posted by flatluigi at 12:17 PM on May 14, 2015

So neat!
posted by Akhu at 12:27 PM on May 14, 2015

Pink bones. . . . posted by bismol

Heh.

" . . . fox squirrel bones glow pink under ultraviolet light . . . only fox squirrel bones!"

Very interesting. Thanks.

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posted by Herodios at 12:28 PM on May 14, 2015 [1 favorite]

Stay away from me lucky bones!
posted by Chuffy at 1:16 PM on May 14, 2015

The whole "otters eating urchins turn purple" thing strikes me as fodder for some really solid post-mortem coroner trolling, if that's your sort of thing.
posted by cortex at 1:45 PM on May 14, 2015 [1 favorite]

I work next to an anthropology dept. One day they needed my help moving some stuff out of an office. So I found myself picking up a human femur, a monkey skull, and some parts I had no idea what were. When I finally got to the point where I also had a small box with various bones in it I thought, "What if I dumped the femur and a skull someplace where people would find them?" I was imagining the forensics investigation, the murder police, the news cycles, the fun!

It's a testament to my self-control and my continued employment that I am able to resist such urges. I did manage to get my picture taken holding a skull.
posted by cjorgensen at 5:33 AM on May 15, 2015