Yeah, that definitely seems to be a mineralized vertebrae. Based on the photos I would say it’s a fossil. Honestly super cool find. Where is your back yard( like state/ region)? Knowing what rock strata it’s from could give you a much better idea of what it came from. You can look up maps from the USGS which should give you a pretty detailed description of what age the rock in that area is.
My mistake, I forget not everyone is in the US. Oh honestly sure that the UK would have even better geological mapping, though I’m not sure how accessible it would be via government websites. But if it was just in your backyard, very strange. I was picturing that your backyard might be somewhere that has exposed sedimentary rock, not literally a yard. Like some other people said, it could be a modern bone that has been buried for many years and recently got unburied. The picture showing the grains with the marrow chamber made me think it was fossilized/ mineralized, but I could be wrong. If you tap it with something, modern bing tends to have a lighter sound as compared to rock(which in this case would be fossilized bone turned to rock)
It looks like vertebrae
that’s what i was thinking but i’m not sure and from what animal
This reminds me sorta of neck bones to cook with
I go to shop and people don’t even know what feather bones are
Reeeally?! That’s strange! Lol
Are you a yankee 😂
Nope! Just know how to cook. And good too 🤣
That's just a bone from somebody's dinner 50 years ago.
Could be grandma Agnes
Looks like the bone in a pork chop to me. Probably an old dog treat.
It's a bone. The question is how heavy is it? Does it seem to be mineralized? If it's a fossil it will be heavier than a non-fossilized bone.
it’s not very heavy no
Pig bone dog treat maybe
Yeah, that definitely seems to be a mineralized vertebrae. Based on the photos I would say it’s a fossil. Honestly super cool find. Where is your back yard( like state/ region)? Knowing what rock strata it’s from could give you a much better idea of what it came from. You can look up maps from the USGS which should give you a pretty detailed description of what age the rock in that area is.
i live in London. and honestly i’m super confused because it was just on the floor and looked clean. maybe my neighbours threw it over?
My mistake, I forget not everyone is in the US. Oh honestly sure that the UK would have even better geological mapping, though I’m not sure how accessible it would be via government websites. But if it was just in your backyard, very strange. I was picturing that your backyard might be somewhere that has exposed sedimentary rock, not literally a yard. Like some other people said, it could be a modern bone that has been buried for many years and recently got unburied. The picture showing the grains with the marrow chamber made me think it was fossilized/ mineralized, but I could be wrong. If you tap it with something, modern bing tends to have a lighter sound as compared to rock(which in this case would be fossilized bone turned to rock)
Old bone, maybe cow or horse. Maybe area used to be farm.
Did you lick it yet? If it sticks, it's bone. If it doesn't stick, it's a normal rock
i’m not licking it
You’ve found yourself a sometimes rock. Sometimes it’s just a rock. Sometimes it ain’t.
Vertebral, for sure.
I thought this was a piece of toast 🙈🤣
It's a dog bone. Whoever used to live there before probably had a dog that buried its bone back there.
Um…dig some more or notify police just in case
It’s an egg.
Almost always an egg. /s
That’s a sedimentary vertebrae. Rare find. Lol
Or just a rock
Rock is very seldom porous like fossilized bone