Welcome to The Bone Room Online

The Bone Room is the web's premiere natural history store. We specialize in natural science and all things once living.
The Bone Room is the place to come for real human and animal skulls and skeletons, genuine fossils, quality bone and fossil cast replicas, framed insects, and all manner of weird and wonderful things. ​

JUNE NEWSLETTER

Amazing...we're almost halfway through 2019 already. And yet I still have a couple of things left from Tucson:
Fossil Sea Stars - with Independence Day coming up, we thought someone might want to display a 450 million-year-old star, just to give us some perspective on our very young country. Stripes, well, you can think of something. $70 - $120. Remember that we're supposed to call them sea stars now, not starfish - even the very old ones. Because, after all, they're not fish.
Quickly, if you want a giraffe, order this one - large but young, the ossicones (horns) are unfused - we are leaving them unglued, as it is rather interesting to see that they are separate structures. When a giraffe is born, the ossicones  are present, but they lie flat - perhaps as a kindness to the mother. Formed of ossified cartilage, they fuse to the skull later in life. Giraffe skull $1000
Sticks and Leaves​ - sounds like the title of a book on grammar, but actually it's about camouflage. To avoid being eaten, these insects cleverly disguise themselves as the plants they live (and feast) on. If you're lucky enough to see some living walking sticks, you'll notice that they even move like plants being blown gently by a breeze. Nabokov pointed out (in Speak, Memory) that "When a butterfly has to look like a leaf, not only are all the details of a leaf beautifully rendered but markings mimicking grub-bored holes are generously thrown in." Framed walking sticks and moving leaves, $30 - $100
​Bone Room Relics​ - We were - all right, I was - impressed by the reliquaries in churches across Italy. Displayed reverently behind old wavy glass and wrought metal, bones and mummified parts have resided in these sanctuaries for centuries, and are still having candles lit before them, still venerated by the faithful. In a Capuchin monastery, hundreds of tiny bits of bone are lovingly preserved, labelled in miniscule calligraphy as to which saint is represented.


Inspired by the art of these antiquities, we are offering these modern Bone Room Reliquaries - metalwork lockets containing human ossicles (ear bones; specifically the incus, or anvil). The 'Roman' calligraphy asks us, in Latin, to Hear No Evil; we do not promise any miracles, only an interesting piece of jewelry. Locket with 18" chain $40
The Bone Room Amber Room​ is an online store, dedicated mainly to inclusions in amber. Note that though the site is already extensive, it's only the beginning, as we have only just started to catalog the collection of amber (and copal, and burmite, and amber jewelry) we have to offer.  We hope you will return from time to time to keep an eye on additions and developments. 


We have designed the website so that the customer can search by insect order or by type of amber. Please note that most pieces are illustrated by several photos; click on a specimen to see more details about that piece. 
Ron Cauble, founder of The Bone Room, was obsessed with inclusions in amber. At Fossil and Mineral Shows he would typically be found seated at an amber dealer's booth, a great pile of amber pieces before him, peering through a loupe at the world inside each piece. 


Over the years, some of the pieces were sold to collectors and scientists (most notably, to George Poinar, recognized amber expert and author) - but Ron was always a better collector than salesman, and his collection grew to museum backroom proportions.


Finally we are getting a good start on cataloging and photographing his enormous collection of amber and copal, and offering this work of love and obsession to the public. We think Ron would approve. 

BONE ROOM AMBER ROOM​

Looking for Human Skulls?

You are in the right place! The Bone Room has been selling human skulls and bones for over 25 years. We have the largest selection of human skulls available. Browse our online selection here, and if you don't see what you are looking for email us and we will send you more options. Read more about human bones and skulls in the United States here. 

Do you work with Search & Rescue Dogs?

    If you are looking for bones suitable to train search and rescue dogs, please see here.  We have provided bones for many search and rescue dogs trainers in the past, and have the experience to help you find exactly what you need at more affordable prices.

WE BUY BONES​

Got bones you don't need any more?  Maybe we can take them off your hands.

Need a prop for something?

Are you a photographer, set decorator, or artist looking for a unique piece for your work? If so, you'll be happy to know we do rentals! With our rentals, you can take advantage of our one of a kind collection for a fraction of the cost. 

View our rental information here.

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