I have been taking daily photos of the squirrel since placing her in with the dermestid beetles. I pasted the pictures together and made a little video to show the progression. It has taken a week for the beetles to remove all of the meat from the squirrel. It turns out she has two broken ribs, a broken pelvis, and a couple of broken spinous processes on her vertebrae. I say that is not bad for a run in with a relatively large dog. Overall, the damage is fixable and the skeleton should turn out nicely. I am leaving her in with the beetles for another day or two just to get off the very last tiny bits of flesh and then I will whiten her bones and start working on her. The beetles have done a wonderful job and I can't wait to get them started on my next specimen.
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Nice photo montage little sis! I mite bit gruesome, but very interesting.
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