There was an incredible display piece at the anatomy labs I used to teach in.
It was a glass cabinet, filled with about fifty human skulls. But the interesting thing was that, at one end of the case was the skull of a newborn baby, and then the rest of the skulls were arranged in developmental order going back from that. It began with tiny fetal proto-skulls and showed the development until birth.
Kinda knew/was hoping Caitlin Doughty would be involved judging by the headline.
Museum of Science and Industry has a wall of pre-natal development, which displays real fetuses at all stages of development
Creepy enough, but I guess just the skulls would be creepier?
Me too! My Mommy gave it to me.
This was your fathers! Have you ever polished a skull before?
Skull for sale: one careful owner… but not careful enough.
Where be your gibes now? Your gambols? Your songs? Your flashes of merriment that were wont to set the table on a roar? Not one now to mock your own grinning? Quite chapfallen?
As I understand it, though, the Second Amendment allows Americans to keep a radius or ulna.
Also, bald eagle feathers are a very controlled substance…it’s almost impossible to get one legally unless you are Native American and part of a tribe using it for an official ceremony or dress.
Yeah, that’s exactly what they want you to think. But by being born, you consented to a EULA that makes it clear you’ve only a limited license to that skull and its contents.
That’s pretty humerus!
Yes, but you have to keep them uncovered, of course.
The skull perhaps, but the contents are my intellectual property for 50 years after my death.
There is a service for that, if you watch the video by Caitlin above. It’s a grey area right now, but there is someone who is doing it.
That can be read in several ways… 
I hear that Bald Eagles are very good judges of character; or maybe they just instinctive make a lunge when they see carrion?
I found a cat skull under a tree once.
Glenn doesn’t just want your skulls. That’s childish. He needs them. And when you need something, that’s a responsibility.
I assumed that exception was because the federal government had to explicitly step in at some point and say STOP SELLING TREATING NATIVE AMERICAN BONES LIKE A COMMODITY.
Or, possibly, that there is a tribe somewhere where human bones might have some religious importance? (I know that the etymology of “cannibal” came from Christopher Columbus misunderstanding the Carib peoples’ name for themselves; and that the Caribs often kept the bones of relative for religious reasons, which Columbus assumed meant that they ate humans.)
I’m a classic big-government liberal. I think the state has a right and an obligation to make sure that society is orderly, fair, and healthy. So it’s not like I have any kind of philosophical objection to these laws, which I know are well-intentioned.
But I have to say, the sheer time needed to do regulatory compliance is, by far, the single biggest obstacle to getting new people into the hobby of skull collection.
