Sheep skull

Photographs 12th February 2016

Photographs of a sheep skull from the rear.

The unusual viewpoints in these photographs make the skull look unfamiliar.

In the first photograph, above, you can’t see the eye sockets or the parts of the mouth or nasal cavities, but the image shows features that are readily, but wrongly, interpreted as these features. There seem to be eyes at the sides of the skull and a mouth at the base (This is the hole where the spine and the skull meet). There’s even a small bony structure that resembles a nose.

More fancifully the bones that seem to form the outer edges of the eyes can be interpreted as being little arms that are dangling from the junctions of the skull and the horns, and the small bony appendages at the base of the skull can be interpreted as little legs.