WFO on lings Abkings ling almost beaten "pictures added"

my country ass somehow got lost in this discusion, but as far as the skull goes, it is clean and all the brain tissue and any other thingamajigs I could pick off it that didn't seem to be bone are gone. But, I do have parts that at this time don't have a place.

awesome, totally aweome!

Skyboy,

I'm not sure how helpful the following illustrations are going to be for you but I promised them so here they are.

The first image is a generic fish skull with all the bones labelled.   The second figure is a lingcod skull.


Let me know if you have any questions.

Brian

That should be very helpful, when I get home I look and see If I can reconstruct. Thanks Brain. Joe

Cool... looks like an alien creature with the pointed gill plate bone.
Well... Joe.  I hope you're good at jigsaw puzzles.

Well. I thought I was, but, I am missing pieces. So, I got what I got. It is most of a ling skull. looks good though.

Skyboy,

If you didn't save the hyoid arch (i.e. the bones behind the main skull bone and between the gill plates) I wouldn't worry.  Those aren't necessarily part of the skull, but they are in the lingcod diagram.

I'd really like to see some pictures when you're done.  BTW, in fish class this was a multiweeek project for us and we probably spent 20-30 hrs working on it so don't feel to discouraged if it didn't all come together in a few hours.

Brian

That is one mean lookingg spike on the gill plate!!! 

great...now I can picture Joe wearing it over his head as a Holloween costume...I'm sure the kids around the block will get a kick out of it....or rather...soil their pants when they see a walking ling cod coming at 'em 

That bottom pic makes it look like a scary sock puppet.