I seem to always have brilliant luck around this time of year in finding skulls: look at what I picked up on my walk last night ! It's my first even meenyuun skull, and this looks like a Meenyuun gru monocular because of the single eye socket, although you tend to find them in groups with the other main European two-eyed variant Meenyuun gru binocular.
They seem to be fairly widespread across the world, but this is the first I've seen them in Scotland. They are usually quite easy to spot because of their bright yellow colour. It's difficult to judge age from the adult teeth, since all meenyuuns are highly juvenile, but it looks like a young adult. Meenyuuns are frugivores, and feed mainly on apples and bananas, and come from the same Mayduppus family as cranochan, haggis and gruffalo.
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Wow, thats amazing. Never seen anything like that before. Well done Jake x
lol, good one my son just pointed it out to me. First April fool in years.
I was like... Huh?!? Till it said it was in the haggis family;)
Nicely done, jake. It took me a minute to figure it out.
Had to google what a Meenyuun is, and interestingly most of the hits come back to this article, so I'm not much the wiser. But I'm sure I have something like this in the garage loft, in a box marked 'Unidentified beach finds, 1972'. I hadn't even been to Scotland back then, so it must've come from Anglesey or the Lleyn peninsular.
Ha, thanks ! Lee Post is pretty amazing for his articulation guides.
Ha !
It's sometimes spelt "M-I-N-I-O-N", try googling that, Ric !
Haha, you naughty boy! I fell for it too :P
Ha! I thought it might be one of these little chappies but didn't know what they were called. I'm off to beachcomb Criccieth beach tomorrow so I'll see if I can find another!
I didn't find one! :(
I absolutely love your sense of humor. You're fantastic, as always.
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