Rudy Mancke helps to identify a mystery skeleton sent to him by Jim Welch, his former co-host on SCETV's "NatureScene."
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RUDY MANCKE:
Hi, this is Rudy Mancke from University of South Carolina for NatureNotes.
Jim Welch [former co-host of SCETV's "NatureScene"] got in touch with me the other day. "NatureScene" and all those good days, and Beryl [Dakers, former co-host] and Jim got me through it.
He had found a skeleton in the woods. He lives now in North Carolina. Carolina. And he asked a number of people what they thought it was.
The skeleton didn't have a skull with it or mandibles. It's just, you know, vertebrae and ribs and pelvis, and that kind of thing. He wanted another opinion. So he sent me a picture of it.
It was really an easy I.D. Because It was the only marsupial that we've got, the Virginia opossum. And even without a skull, you identify it by really thick neural spines on a lot of the vertebrae, and the pelvis, of course, has an odd look it to also.
