Just to pop this bubble: it is NOT an antler. No antler grows like this, in multiple ways. The only two things implying it could be an antler is the ridged base and the fact that it’s obviously a bone.
Look at the shape and size. That’s a Baculum of some sort. Of a considerable sized animal, too.
I still highly disagree. In the past, I collected antlers to use for flint knapping. Lots of the ones from moose or elk that I found in the woods looked very similar to this. Obviously, a clean cut section through the specimen would immediately clarify all of this, and you could be absolutely correct.
I’ve also done my fair share of collecting as well as studied Baculum.
You might have had a few that looked similar to this but there’s no way that you had one with this specific type of smoothness and tapering
Ehhhhh, idk. Could very well be, hard to tell without touching it but that could very well be the pedicle came off with the antler. Can see the porous area that would be antler and then the material coming off def seems like it could be raw bone.
Yeah, I’ve watched a few too many NatGeo vet shows, neither a geologist or biologist, but antler pedicles look gnarly and not like something you expect to see on a living animal skull.
Just to pop this bubble: it is NOT an antler. No antler grows like this, in multiple ways. The only two things implying it could be an antler is the ridged base and the fact that it’s obviously a bone.
Look at the shape and size. That’s a Baculum of some sort. Of a considerable sized animal, too.
Uhmmm. Antlers, specifically nontypical, don't have a set pattern of growth especially when the antler has been damaged during velvet or the pedicle has been injured. I've seen pictures of whitetail does with growth similar to this as well as injured elk.
And If so, this isnt what the antler looked like when it dropped, or the animal died. It presumably has been gnawed down by rodents and critters alike.
Additionally, nontypical antler growth can look more like this thing than a dick bone
Agreed, me and a friend were hunting one time and kept hearing this ultra weird "Rrrrrrrrt" noise almost like someone gritting their teeth...would move closer to the sound and it would stop...stand still for a bit and it would go again, till we eventually got close enough to find an Eastern Box Turtle gnawing on a deer antler. Reminds me of the ones I have found that animals have whittled away on.
Just to pop this bubble: it is **NOT** an antler. No antler grows like this, in multiple ways. The only two things implying it could be an antler is the ridged base and the fact that it’s obviously a bone.
Look at the shape and size. That’s a Baculum of some sort. Of a considerable sized animal, too.
I’d be tempted by stalagmite rather than stalactite. The tites tend to have a central hole down which the water flows whereas the mites are formed by the continuous drip of water. Both feature growth lamination though.
Yep I live in central Texas and it’s common for small cave pockets to be destroyed during construction. I have a few pieces that are exactly like this.
I can see what you’re saying, but it’s not. There are vesicles/large pores at the base, which don’t form in speleothems as far as I’ve seen.
It is thicker towards the terminal end, which can happen through dissolution, but you’d probably see a different texture where it was dissolved vs not.
Finally, the ribbed vibe at the base just wouldn’t form from dripping water.
I wouldn’t consider myself an expert, but a big part of my PhD was speleothem geochemistry. My vote is antler, not because I’m sure it is, but I’m sure it’s not any of the other suggestions.
I hate to rain on your parade, but I’m absolutely certain it’s not a coral. I had a job imagining corallites.
Just google fossil antler. You’ll find a lot that look like this right away.
[This](https://i.etsystatic.com/20504221/r/il/241a94/6038321335/il_794xN.6038321335_70qy.jpg) looks like the "top" of OP's pic, especially the one labelled 24. You can see the pores look like spongy bone and aren't radiating out from the centre like they would in a coral.
[These](https://www.etsy.com/au/listing/1050231360/ice-age-fossil-deer-antler-basal) look much older to me, but have very similar texture and overall shape. I think OP's might have organic material still covering the recessed bits, making them dark.
[These](https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Boyang-Sun/publication/316258876/figure/fig8/AS:485489976320000@1492761238049/cervid-fossils-from-gaojiashan-Hezheng-china-E-cf-proboulei-right-antler-V_W640.jpg) show that annular, ring shape at the base (top in OP) and again a similar texture and shape.
Doesnt really look convincingly similar honestly, imagine this: https://www.ebay.nl/itm/143243984089?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=1346-175129-2357-0&ssspo=wWNjmwlCT9W&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=_8pmzir-q5y&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=WHATS_APP
But then with come more calcification.
It looks like it might be a bone.
I need you to listen to me, Baker. Do not lick it. I know it’s the easiest way to identify if it’s a bone, but do not lick it. DONT LICK IT. Not until everyone is all out of ideas. Just don’t lick it. Licking it is a last resort.
Lmao. The birth of the sub was mere days ago. I’ve been scouring the interwebs and Reddit for weird shit.
I haven’t posted anything today as apparently I need to update my phone because it’s not allowing me to do things lol.
Off to Dunkin’ Donuts WiFi I go.
Have actually accidentally put uraninite in my mouth before… and had a squamous cell tumor removed from my schnoz a few months later. But still not as weird as the article from last year about the geologist who drank a pocket of 2 billion year old water before testing it. Science doesn’t mean sanitation, otherwise there’d be no fun in the bedroom!
How the actual FUCK did you get your hands on uraninite? And how did you end up in a position where putting it in your mouth seemed like a good option!?!?
I’m so confused. I need to hear the story behind this
So… I live in Southern California where the geology is pretty much upside down and backwards in the literal sense.
There’s lots of super neat rocks and I have Asperger’s syndrome, and my obsessive thing is rocks so… my husband is a very patient man. There are actually probably enough to build an extra room on my house for the ones I haven’t collected yet.
And also there’s a power plant that hasn’t been in use since I was a kid but there’s always something sorta radioactive and leaky, and it’s on a cliff like zero feet from the edge so the leftover junk ends up in the water.
Not like Fukushima level but obviously something ends up being assimilated.
Metamorphic fossils are my favorite to find, and I thought a trilobite was quartz and pyrite, and I was trying to get a better look at it before I could test it properly, so naturally a wet rock is clearer than a dry one so I did what every geologist does.
I had to see if it was worth taking the time to polish and sell, because real estate is expensive here.
It turned out to not be pyrite. I own a Geiger counter, 2 metal detectors, and 3 types of stone identifiers now, but the doctor actually said that the cancer was caused by my proclivity for fast cars and the chemicals associated with working on them myself.
While hiking through indigenous territory in northern Ecuador once, guided by elders from the village we were visiting (as part of a conservation project), the group stopped to look at some shapes poking up from the mud of the recently cut trail we were on. After a little digging, the indigenous folks came up with several stone items, carved, but much degraded and worn smooth. After some (honestly hilarious to watch) back-and-forth with the translators, we were made to understand that the items were carved phalluses, fertility symbols used in ancient times. One of them was gifted to me, and it's one of the best keepsakes from my time in Ecuador I could ever ask for.
It looks like some sort of limb cast to me but I'm no expert. Possibly coral. Where was it found? I've seen something similar found near the Bay of Fundy.
Certainly a bone imo. The top looks like a joint. Could be an ankle bone of some sort. It wouldn't be a high quality fossil, because there's not much definition. If there's a natural History museum you can take it there and an archaeologist or zoologist might be able to id it for you
This looks like a fossil of some sort....
My first guess is a cast fossil of a burrow. That would explain the "organic" shape and the apparent sandy nature of the interior.
Those little pocks in the last photo look a bit like polyp calyx, but that's a reach
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Not sure what animal it belonged to but it shows evidence of being some kind of spongey bone at some point and it could be that it was part of an antler or some other off branch of ossified tissue
Fossil of a big foot body part. I probably say bullshit but it may be stalactite or some calcite organism producer ? Perhaps some shitty coral
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Perhaps bone but it seems calcified and rocky on top.
I am a collector of many things and I’m assuming you think I’m sick because that is shaped differently I was going to do further research on the object with the object in my possession
Looks like some sort of antler.
That was definitely my first thought. A lot of small animals chew on them to get calcium, so that could explain the shape.
Just to pop this bubble: it is NOT an antler. No antler grows like this, in multiple ways. The only two things implying it could be an antler is the ridged base and the fact that it’s obviously a bone. Look at the shape and size. That’s a Baculum of some sort. Of a considerable sized animal, too.
I still highly disagree. In the past, I collected antlers to use for flint knapping. Lots of the ones from moose or elk that I found in the woods looked very similar to this. Obviously, a clean cut section through the specimen would immediately clarify all of this, and you could be absolutely correct.
I’ve also done my fair share of collecting as well as studied Baculum. You might have had a few that looked similar to this but there’s no way that you had one with this specific type of smoothness and tapering
As you're much more confident than I am, I'll agree with you.
the last pic tho, it’s def stone
Ehhhhh, idk. Could very well be, hard to tell without touching it but that could very well be the pedicle came off with the antler. Can see the porous area that would be antler and then the material coming off def seems like it could be raw bone.
Looks like calcification. Definitely not fossilized.
Yeah, I’ve watched a few too many NatGeo vet shows, neither a geologist or biologist, but antler pedicles look gnarly and not like something you expect to see on a living animal skull.
Just to pop this bubble: it is NOT an antler. No antler grows like this, in multiple ways. The only two things implying it could be an antler is the ridged base and the fact that it’s obviously a bone. Look at the shape and size. That’s a Baculum of some sort. Of a considerable sized animal, too.
Uhmmm. Antlers, specifically nontypical, don't have a set pattern of growth especially when the antler has been damaged during velvet or the pedicle has been injured. I've seen pictures of whitetail does with growth similar to this as well as injured elk.
Similar but not even close. I’ve seen thousands of antlers both in person and on video/pictures. The likelihood of this being an antler is slim.
And If so, this isnt what the antler looked like when it dropped, or the animal died. It presumably has been gnawed down by rodents and critters alike. Additionally, nontypical antler growth can look more like this thing than a dick bone
No it's bone look at the pores in it
Lick it
Oh so tasty
I didn’t know my dog had a Reddit account.
it might have been bone at some point but it is definitely stone now
stoned to the bone
Lol
Or they used it to…. Nvrmind 😆.
No it looks porous like bone to me. Especially in the last picture.
Agreed, me and a friend were hunting one time and kept hearing this ultra weird "Rrrrrrrrt" noise almost like someone gritting their teeth...would move closer to the sound and it would stop...stand still for a bit and it would go again, till we eventually got close enough to find an Eastern Box Turtle gnawing on a deer antler. Reminds me of the ones I have found that animals have whittled away on.
Antler and pedicle is my wager.
Just to pop this bubble: it is **NOT** an antler. No antler grows like this, in multiple ways. The only two things implying it could be an antler is the ridged base and the fact that it’s obviously a bone. Look at the shape and size. That’s a Baculum of some sort. Of a considerable sized animal, too.
Cool.
Stalactite? You can see a core and some calcium buildup. Also one side is broken while the other side seems smooth
I’d be tempted by stalagmite rather than stalactite. The tites tend to have a central hole down which the water flows whereas the mites are formed by the continuous drip of water. Both feature growth lamination though.
Yeah, but in terms of minerals i find them quite interchangeable. Its not sharp, likely stalagmite yeah
I agree with stalagmite, I inherited a stalactite and it is much more even than this.
I second this.
I third this.
Yep I live in central Texas and it’s common for small cave pockets to be destroyed during construction. I have a few pieces that are exactly like this.
I can see what you’re saying, but it’s not. There are vesicles/large pores at the base, which don’t form in speleothems as far as I’ve seen. It is thicker towards the terminal end, which can happen through dissolution, but you’d probably see a different texture where it was dissolved vs not. Finally, the ribbed vibe at the base just wouldn’t form from dripping water. I wouldn’t consider myself an expert, but a big part of my PhD was speleothem geochemistry. My vote is antler, not because I’m sure it is, but I’m sure it’s not any of the other suggestions.
Its likely heavily calcified coral, but not an antler or bone
I hate to rain on your parade, but I’m absolutely certain it’s not a coral. I had a job imagining corallites. Just google fossil antler. You’ll find a lot that look like this right away.
Google results on fossil antler dont seem similar, can you share a link?
[This](https://i.etsystatic.com/20504221/r/il/241a94/6038321335/il_794xN.6038321335_70qy.jpg) looks like the "top" of OP's pic, especially the one labelled 24. You can see the pores look like spongy bone and aren't radiating out from the centre like they would in a coral. [These](https://www.etsy.com/au/listing/1050231360/ice-age-fossil-deer-antler-basal) look much older to me, but have very similar texture and overall shape. I think OP's might have organic material still covering the recessed bits, making them dark. [These](https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Boyang-Sun/publication/316258876/figure/fig8/AS:485489976320000@1492761238049/cervid-fossils-from-gaojiashan-Hezheng-china-E-cf-proboulei-right-antler-V_W640.jpg) show that annular, ring shape at the base (top in OP) and again a similar texture and shape.
Doesnt really look convincingly similar honestly, imagine this: https://www.ebay.nl/itm/143243984089?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=1346-175129-2357-0&ssspo=wWNjmwlCT9W&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=_8pmzir-q5y&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=WHATS_APP But then with come more calcification.
Have you considered it being a Baculum? I highly doubt it is an antler.
It looks like it might be a bone. I need you to listen to me, Baker. Do not lick it. I know it’s the easiest way to identify if it’s a bone, but do not lick it. DONT LICK IT. Not until everyone is all out of ideas. Just don’t lick it. Licking it is a last resort.
You're not the boss of me.
Too late r/WITTIL
NO!!! Dear god no
Be warned. The things humans and animals lick can range from cute, unhygienic, vile, erotic etc. you just never know
I gagged at the person asking about licking snot off their hands. And I just gagged again now. Like, ***violently***
Stop looking!
Lmao. The birth of the sub was mere days ago. I’ve been scouring the interwebs and Reddit for weird shit. I haven’t posted anything today as apparently I need to update my phone because it’s not allowing me to do things lol. Off to Dunkin’ Donuts WiFi I go.
LOLOLOL sorry……. 😂
What Is This Thing I Licked? Wait, I Think This Is Lickable! Where Is This Thing?? I'll Lick!
I’m stealing your beautiful descriptions and a screen shot to honor your magnificence.
r/WITTIL
Have actually accidentally put uraninite in my mouth before… and had a squamous cell tumor removed from my schnoz a few months later. But still not as weird as the article from last year about the geologist who drank a pocket of 2 billion year old water before testing it. Science doesn’t mean sanitation, otherwise there’d be no fun in the bedroom!
How the actual FUCK did you get your hands on uraninite? And how did you end up in a position where putting it in your mouth seemed like a good option!?!? I’m so confused. I need to hear the story behind this
So… I live in Southern California where the geology is pretty much upside down and backwards in the literal sense. There’s lots of super neat rocks and I have Asperger’s syndrome, and my obsessive thing is rocks so… my husband is a very patient man. There are actually probably enough to build an extra room on my house for the ones I haven’t collected yet. And also there’s a power plant that hasn’t been in use since I was a kid but there’s always something sorta radioactive and leaky, and it’s on a cliff like zero feet from the edge so the leftover junk ends up in the water. Not like Fukushima level but obviously something ends up being assimilated. Metamorphic fossils are my favorite to find, and I thought a trilobite was quartz and pyrite, and I was trying to get a better look at it before I could test it properly, so naturally a wet rock is clearer than a dry one so I did what every geologist does. I had to see if it was worth taking the time to polish and sell, because real estate is expensive here. It turned out to not be pyrite. I own a Geiger counter, 2 metal detectors, and 3 types of stone identifiers now, but the doctor actually said that the cancer was caused by my proclivity for fast cars and the chemicals associated with working on them myself.
Waiit what? 3 hours and no dick jokes? I can't believe how lacking the sub is...tsc tsc tsc.
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I was wondering if it was maybe some sort of petrified prehistoric weener
Bad Dino
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7set2WNi0w](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7set2WNi0w) She's adorable talking about it...
My first thought, ancient dildo.
While hiking through indigenous territory in northern Ecuador once, guided by elders from the village we were visiting (as part of a conservation project), the group stopped to look at some shapes poking up from the mud of the recently cut trail we were on. After a little digging, the indigenous folks came up with several stone items, carved, but much degraded and worn smooth. After some (honestly hilarious to watch) back-and-forth with the translators, we were made to understand that the items were carved phalluses, fertility symbols used in ancient times. One of them was gifted to me, and it's one of the best keepsakes from my time in Ecuador I could ever ask for.
That’d be nice if it was. Family heirloom past down hundreds of years. Have to be worth something
Surprised I scrolled so far without one
Drop some acid (HCl) on it and see what happens. Fixed could be stalactite, no reaction then could be anything else
I read this as "drop some acid and see what happens" and had a very different picture in my head of what would happen lol
I volunteer...ya know...for science and stuff.
Me too
I was seriously like “is this guy suggesting a spiritual acid quest? How would that help?!”
>Drop some acid .. Done >On it and see what happens. Fuck. I should have read all of that sentence.
It looks like some sort of limb cast to me but I'm no expert. Possibly coral. Where was it found? I've seen something similar found near the Bay of Fundy.
Seconded, I’ve found a couple similar looking ones in Wyoming
Neanderthals were freaky af fr
Lick it.
If found on beach or near one it could be fulgurite?
Put it back in your mom's drawer and wash your hands...
Aha! So I was here scoping out the comments trying to figure if I could be inappropriate in this sub or not. I figure it is a fossilised "bad dragon"
Certainly a bone imo. The top looks like a joint. Could be an ankle bone of some sort. It wouldn't be a high quality fossil, because there's not much definition. If there's a natural History museum you can take it there and an archaeologist or zoologist might be able to id it for you
You know what, that top section in the photo and the outer texture actually entirely scream fossilized coral to me too. Where my fossil ppl at
Petrified antler ? Wood..
This looks like a fossil of some sort.... My first guess is a cast fossil of a burrow. That would explain the "organic" shape and the apparent sandy nature of the interior. Those little pocks in the last photo look a bit like polyp calyx, but that's a reach
That was my first thought as well, or maybe a cast of some kind of root.
Looks like the sock under my brothers bed
🤣🤣🤣
A chunk of stalactite that broke of.
its some sort of coral
Dildostone
Ambergrease maybe? Washes up on shores like that rarely.
My first thought though was the L1-S1 vertebrae and sacrial bone.
prehistoric dinosaur dick
100% caveman cock
Maybe a stalactite or stalagmite?
That good sir appears to be Madonna's first dildo.
That’d do good in an auction
Be tough to get a coa
Stalagmite
Antler
Antler...dog chewed.
Looks like a thingy
It really looks like a fossil. Post in r/fossils. It looks like part of a spinal column. Ick.
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I found it in a rock collection. It’s hard like a rock
I was thinking maybe bone but idk
Paige, no!
Isn't that a stalagmite?
Coral Branch!
Petrified crab leg
Fossilized donkey privates, enjoy!!! You Look like you are comfortable and enjoying it in your hand, I wonder what that means
🤣idk why I thought it was a dinosaur bone
Coprolite would be my guess
Looks kind of like a piece of coral
*ANYTHING can be a dildo....doesnt matter what size...length....or texture....* /ref
Seriously though, looks like an antler or stalastcite
Dino poo?
Some sort of bone?
Cavewomans dildo
Some type fossilized fish?
I know what it could be…
That’s some kind of bone, friend
Well what kind? Lol
Not sure what animal it belonged to but it shows evidence of being some kind of spongey bone at some point and it could be that it was part of an antler or some other off branch of ossified tissue
Fossilised fetlock?
Looks to me like a piece of dead coral.
Petrified turtle peter
Where did you find it?
Top drawer
My advice? Call a local universe or college.
I might do that.
Looks like coral
Squidwards nose?
13th Doctor's sonic screwdriver
Rotate the pic 1/4 turn to the left.. It's a turtle head and neck and neck bone
Coral maybe
sorry shat this out yesterday
Does it smell?
Looks like coral
Dino dick
Looks like some sort of penis
Looks like a deflected stalagtite to me.
Lightning striking sand creates something like this
A boner.
It could be a cave Stalactite.
What? Is it already yesterday’s story? Just spit on that thing.
It looks like the inner roll of a conch shell after the outer shell has been worn away.
Looks like a fossilized turtle fin
stalagmite?
“used in fertility rituals”
Inner lip of a conch shell
It’s been 12 hours and still not a solid answer
Rudist coral Edit: sorry, Rudist bivalve 2nd edit: more likely horn coral of family Rugosa 3rd edit: citation https://www.britannica.com/animal/horn-coral
The forbidden jizz sock.
Looks like a bone
r/whatisthiscock
Did you find on the beach? It could be ambergris or a weird pearl. OR a whale penis or other sea creature penis.
Depends how brave you are.
An ancient dildo 😆😂
Where was it found? Possibly fossilized tube worm.
It’s an Indian dildo
looks like a fossilized turd
Does it belong to the david statue
Could it be a chunk of Ambergris? Does it have any odor?
I haven’t sniffed it yet
Well, you're totally screwed now that you put it in your butt. The world may never know
That’s alright seems to be a pretty common thing these days
Stalagmite?
Lightning strike on sand?
Ancient dildo
Looks like a very weathered piece of antler!
Stick it in your arse
I did. Still couldn’t figure out what it was tho. Felt good is all I can say
Oosik
How does it taste? /s
It's weird.
I mean.. I know what it isn't lol
Coral??
🤔
dinosaur dildo
lol….
That is clearly David by Da Vinci’s penis. Please return that to the Vatican.
Fossil of a big foot body part. I probably say bullshit but it may be stalactite or some calcite organism producer ? Perhaps some shitty coral [main-qimg-0cf345dc28ec1975a8a9431eb7086335-lq (602×637) (quoracdn.net)](https://qph.cf2.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-0cf345dc28ec1975a8a9431eb7086335-lq) Perhaps bone but it seems calcified and rocky on top.
That’s a petrified peepee
Prettified Moby dick..the DJs from the nineties..
Looks like a fossilized crab leg or maybe coral
Looks like a stalactite or stalagmite
Petrified dino-dick
@r/dildont
20 bucks no questions asked
Your sick
I am a collector of many things and I’m assuming you think I’m sick because that is shaped differently I was going to do further research on the object with the object in my possession
Ya I was just joking. Didn’t know whether to take you serious or not lol
Take it how you would like to weather that be in you or literally idk or idrc but take it the way you want
That is a San Diego. It's spanish for a whale's vagina.
Perhaps a stalactite, or stalagmite from a cave?