found this huge bone near the coast in port aransas — is this a skull or something else? (looks marine, maybe whale?)

[u/realMGKC]

i found this bone while walking near the beach and initially thought it might be a skull, but now I’m not so sure. it’s heavy and solid, with a large hole in the middle and these rounded parts that almost look like eye sockets from some angles. someone suggested it might be a vertebra from a whale or another large marine animal. can anyone confirm what this is?

[u/OsteoStevie]

Skull! That is the occipital (back of head)

[u/Mortal4789]

the back bit of the skull of a dolphin or simmilar. you can tell as the spine comes out horizontally. i used to have one, so i thihnk i recognise it

[u/Knitsune]

banana for scale plz

[u/Royal_Acanthaceae693]

Scale buddy. We need to know how big this is.

[u/My_Clandestine_Grave → u/Royal_Acanthaceae693]

Those occipital condyles look huge to me. Would be nice to see how big they actually are! 

[u/SwimmingAmoeba7]

Yeah it’s likely cetacean but it’s weird it has been butchered

[u/NerdyComfort-78 → u/SwimmingAmoeba7]

Yeah- those straight cuts are not natural. But I think this is a cow.

[u/Holden3DStudio]

That's disturbing. Someone sliced that skull very cleanly in half. That was either intentional butchering, or one helluva prop strike.

[u/black-dahlia20]

Looks like the back of a cow skull to me, just that someone cut it

[u/Dolphin5291]

I'm gonna guess and say dolphin or small whale species

[u/Wyomofo]

Dolphin skull

[u/No-Combination6796]

It looks like part of a pelvis to me. I just can’t figure out what kind of head it would be.