Weekend wag the dog: Taphonomic mystery edition

Spotted on the forest path I regularly walk the dogs along. I am assuming this poor little fish was dropped by a bird that had fished it out of the nearby Charles River. I did not check for any marks that might have confirmed that suspicion. Just goes to show that accumulating agents and site formation processes can be pretty complex.

About Adam Van Arsdale

I am biological anthropologist with a specialization in paleoanthropology. My research focuses on the pattern of evolutionary change in humans over the past two million years, with an emphasis on the early evolution and dispersal of our genus, Homo. My work spans a number of areas including comparative anatomy, genetics and demography.
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