While on a hike today, we found the weird bone pictured in the blog post below. This was in a wooded area near a marsh in western Massachusetts, USA. The size is kind of impressive, though the whole thing is quite light. The side views below make it look like a skull, but given that something like a spine appears to run along the entire underside, I’m not sure about that identification.
Any of the SDMB zoologists & naturalists want to weigh in?
I wondered about that too; but the bone looked fresh enough to me that I doubt it was there all winter, and the herons haven’t migrated back up here yet. Plenty of wild turkeys in the woods around here, though, year-round.