Rodent Skulls for Osteology
Rodent skull replicas represent an extensive collection of precise osteological models for professional research. These 1:1 scale replicas use durable polyurethane resin to preserve subtle landmarks like the zygomatic plate and infraorbital foramen. Every specimen is ethically sourced to ensure scientific integrity and anatomical accuracy. The catalog includes specialized species such as the capybara, north american beaver, and the unique maned rat. These rodent skull replicas serve as indispensable tools for comparative anatomy and biology instruction. Each 2-part cast includes a separate cranium and mandible for hands-on examination of dental formulas and gnawing mechanics. Many models derive from original specimens at institutions like the California Academy of Sciences to guarantee accuracy. High-resolution detail meets the rigorous demands of universities and museum curators. Every hand-finished landmark remains distinct for professional osteological study. Our commitment to quality ensures that every scientific detail remains accessible.
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African Striped Weasel Skull Replica
$62.00The African Striped Weasel (Poecilogale albinucha), the lone member of the genus Poecilogale, is a small, black and white weasel native to sub-Saharan Africa.
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Agouti Dasyprocto Skull Replica
$91.00The Agouti or Common Agouti is any of several rodent species of the genus Dasyprocta. They are native to Middle America, northern and central South America, and the southern Lesser…
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American Marten Skull Replica
$91.00The American Marten (Martes americana), also known as the American Pine Marten, is a species of North American mammal, a member of the family Mustelidae. The species is sometimes referred…
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American Mink Skull Replica
$61.00The American Mink (Neogale vison) is a semiaquatic species of mustelid native to North America, though human introduction has expanded its range to many parts of Europe, Asia, and South…
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American Pika Skull Replica
$50.00Pikas are vocal, using both calls and songs to warn when predators are nearby and during the breeding season. Predators of the pika include eagles, hawks, coyotes, bobcats, foxes, and…
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Asiatic Brush-Tailed Porcupine Skull
$121.00The Asiatic Brush-Tailed Porcupine is known to be one of the rarest porcupines in South Asia, the species is protected under Schedule II of the Indian Wildlife (Protection) Act, though…
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Australian Water Rat Skull
$61.00The Rakali also known the Australian Otter or Water-rat, is an Australian native rodent first scientifically described in 1804. Adoption of the Aboriginal name Rakali is intended to foster a…
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Black-Tailed Prairie Dog Skull
$61.00The Black-tailed Prairie Dog (Cynomys ludovicianus) is a rodent of the family Sciuridae (the squirrels) found in the Great Plains of North America from about the United States–Canada border to…
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Capybara Male Skull Replica
$243.00Though quite agile on land, Capybaras are equally at home in the water. They are excellent swimmers, and can remain completely submerged for up to five minutes, an ability they…
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Common Pocket Gopher Skull
$62.00Most gophers have brown fur that often closely matches the color of the soil in which they live. Their most characteristic features are their large cheek pouches, from which the…
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Crested Porcupine Skull Replica
$91.00The African Crested Porcupine is native to regions of Northern Africa, Southern Europe, and areas of the Mediterranean. This is a large species of porcupine, complete with a full compliment…
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Eastern Chipmunk Skull Replica
$61.00The Eastern Chipmunk (Tamias striatus) is a chipmunk species found in eastern North America. It is the only living member of the chipmunk genus Tamias.
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Eastern Cottontail Rabbit Skull Replica
$61.00The Eastern Cottontail Rabbit (Sylvilagus floridanus) is a New World cottontail rabbit, a member of the family Leporidae. It is the most common rabbit species in North America. They can…
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Eastern Deer Mouse Skull
$58.00Peromyscus maniculatus are found in all throughout eastern North America. The majority of deer mice nest high up, in large hollow trees. The deer mouse nests alone for the most…
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Eastern Gray Squirrel Skull
$61.00The dental formula of the Eastern Gray Squirrel is 1023/1013 (upper teeth/lower teeth). 1.0.2.3, 1.0.1.3 × 2 = 22 total teeth. Incisors exhibit indeterminate growth, meaning they grow consistently throughout…
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Eastern Mole Skull Replica
$52.00The Eastern Mole or Common Mole (Scalopus aquaticus) is a medium-sized North American mole. It is the only species in the genus Scalopus.
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Eurasian Ermine Skull Replica
$61.00Although Eurasian Ermine are primarily terrestrial, they climb trees and swim well. Tree roots, hollow logs, stone walls, and rodent burrows are used as dens.
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Fisher Martes Female Skull Replica
$91.00Skull and Dentition of male Fishers Martes generally are l 10-1 30 mm long, whereas those of females are 95-105 mm long. They have 38 teeth including four canine teeth.
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Fisher Martes Male Skull Replica
$75.00Skull and Dentition of male Fishers Martes generally are l 10-1 30 mm long, whereas those of females are 95-105 mm long. They have 38 teeth including four canine teeth.
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Gambian Pouched Rat Skull
$90.00The Gambian pouched rat (Cricetomys gambianus), also commonly known as the African giant pouched rat, is a species of nocturnal pouched rat of the giant pouched rat genus Cricetomys, in…
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Giant Pocket Gopher Skull
$50.00The Giant Pocket Gopher is the largest species of pocket gophers in the family Geomyidae. Like all other pocket gophers, the giant pocket gopher constructs extensive systems of tunnels under…
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Golden-Rumped Elephant Shrew Skull Replica
$91.00The Golden-rumped Elephant Shrew (Rhynchocyon chrysopygus) is a small African mammal. It is the largest species of the elephant shrew family along with its close relative the grey-faced sengi. It…
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Greater Cane Rat Skull Replica
$110.00As humans expanded into the Cane rat’s native habitats, the cane rats likewise expanded from their native reeds into the plantations, particularly the sugar cane plantations from which they derive…
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Lowland Paca Skull Replica
$91.00The Lowland Paca is mostly nocturnal and solitary and does not vocalize very much. It lives in forested habitats near water, preferably smaller rivers, and dig simple burrows about 6…
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Maned Rat Skull Replica
$45.00The Maned Rat or African crested rat is a nocturnal, long-haired and bushy-tailed East African rodent that superficially resembles a porcupine. The world’s only known venomous rodent, the Maned Rat…
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Meadow Vole Skull Replica
$58.00Meadow Voles thrive on small plants yet, like shrews, they will eat dead animals and, like mice and rats, they can live on almost any nut or fruit.
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Mountain Beaver Skull Replica
$91.00The skull of the Mountain Beaver or Aplodontia rufa is protrogomorphous; it does not have specialized attachments for the masseter muscles as seen in other rodents. It is flattened and…
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Mouse Skull Replica
$58.00Primarily nocturnal animals, mice compensate for their poor eyesight with a keen sense of hearing. They depend on their sense of smell to locate food and avoid predators.
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Muskrat Male Skull Replica
$61.00Plant materials compose about 95% of their diets, but they also eat small animals, such as freshwater mussels, frogs, crayfish, fish, and small turtles.
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North American Beaver Skull Replica
$91.00Beavers are active mainly at night. They are excellent swimmers and may remain submerged up to 15 minutes. More vulnerable on land, they tend to remain in the water as…
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North American Porcupine Skull
$91.00The most distinguishing feature of the porcupine is its coat of quills. An adult porcupine has about 30,000 quills that cover all of its body except its underbelly, face, and…
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Northeast African Mole Rat Skull Replica
$61.00The Northeast African Mole Rat is a species of rodent and is found in Ethiopia, Somalia, and northwest Kenya. It’s natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist montane forests, dry…
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Northern Viscachas Skull Replica
$61.00The Northern Viscacha (Lagidium peruanum) is a species of viscacha, a rodent in the family Chinchillidae. It is known from Peru and Chile, at elevations from 300 to 5000 m,…
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Nutria Skull Replica
$85.00The orange discoloration on their teeth is due to pigment staining from the mineral iron in the tooth enamel. Nutria have prominent four inch long whiskers on each side of…
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Patagonian mara Skull Replica
$121.00Patagonian maras are found only in Argentina, from 28 to 50°S. They prefer to live in habitats with shrub cover, but they also inhabit overgrazed and barren soils in the…
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Plains Pocket Gopher Skull
$61.00The Plains Pocket Gopher is one of 35 species of pocket gophers, so named in reference to their externally located, fur-lined cheek pouches. They are burrowing animals, found in grasslands…
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Prehensile-tailed Porcupine Skull Replica
$91.00They have continuously growing self-sharpening, iron-rich orange teeth that are exceptionally strong for gnawing, grinding bark, leaves, and fruits.
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Red Giant Flying Squirrel Skull
$61.00The Red Giant Flying Squirrel is a species of rodent in the family Sciuridae (squirrels). It is found in a wide variety of forest–types, plantations and more open habitats with…
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Rock Hyrax Skull Replica
$61.00The Rock Hyrax has a prominent pair of long, pointed tusk-like upper incisors, which are reminiscent of the Elephant, to which the hyrax is distantly related.
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Rufous Rat Kangaroo Skull
$91.00The Rufous Rat Kangaroo is the most widespread member of the Potoroidae family with populations found in Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria, Australia. It is a small nocturnal marsupial…
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Slender-Tailed Cloud Rat Skull
$91.00Slender-Tailed Cloud Rats often live in pairs with one or two dependent young. They give birth in hollow boles of trees (standing or fallen) or in burrows in the ground.
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Snowshoe Rabbit Skull Replica
$61.00Snowshoe Hares eat a variety of plant materials and forage type varies with season. Succulent green vegetation is consumed when available from spring to fall; after the first frost, buds,…
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South African Springhare Skull
$91.00The South African springhare is a medium-sized terrestrial and burrowing rodent. Despite the name, it is not a hare. It is one of two extant species in the genus Pedetes,…
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Southern Tree Hyrax Skull
$61.00The Southern Tree Hyrax also known as the southern tree dassie, is a species of mammal in the family Procaviidae. The southern tree hyrax is mainly found in the south…
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Tayra Male Skull Replica
$91.00The Tayra (Eira barbara) is an omnivorous animal from the weasel family, native to the Americas. It is the only species in the genus Eira. Tayra are solitary diurnal animals,…
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White-Tailed Jackrabbit Skull Replica
$61.00The White-tailed Jackrabbit (Lepus townsendii), also known as the Prairie hare and the White jack, is a species of hare found in western North America. Like all hares and rabbits,…
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White-Tailed Prairie Dog Skull Replica
$66.00White-tailed prairie dogs display Interspecific competition with the Wyoming ground squirrel. When the squirrel enters the territory of the prairie dog, the white-tailed prairie dog chases the squirrel.
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Woodchuck Skull Replica
$61.00The Groundhog (Marmota monax), also known as the Woodchuck, is a rodent of the family Sciuridae, belonging to the group of large ground squirrels known as marmots. The groundhog is…
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Yellow-Spotted Bush Hyrax Skull Replica
$61.00Heterohyrax brucei or Yellow Spotted Hyrax is native to much of central Africa. This species of hyrax inhabits rocky hillsides and out crops. Hyrax are herbivores, feeding on a wide…