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The Bone Room

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About Me

The Bone Room is a natural history store in Berkeley, CA. We sell real bones, genuine fossils, bone and fossil replicas, framed insects, insect collecting supplies, insects in amber, jewelry, miscellaneous animal remnants and all sorts of other strange and wonderful things.
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My Interests

Paleontology, biology, natural history, entomology, anthropology, painting, sculpture, jewelery making, fashion design, taxidermy, antiques, and giving the creeps to average citizens.

I'd like to meet:

The Bone Room is a haven for the eccentric, artistic, intellectual, and just plain weird.

Music:

The chirping of hundreds of crickets and the rattle of Mexican jumping beans

Television:

Six Feet Under, Mythbusters, CSI, Nova, Discovery Channel.

Books:

Grey's Anatomy, field guides, The Origin of Species, Walker's Mammals of the World

Heroes:

Charles Darwin, Alfred Russel Wallace, Carl Sagan, Buckminster Fuller, Albert Einstein, Rosalind Franklin, Stephen Jay Gould, Jane Goodall.

My Blog

We haz a Flickr!

We're moving up in the world here at the Bone Room! We finally got ourselves a flickr account, where we will be uploading new creepy fun pictures from the shop on a regular basis. Check us out at The...
Posted by The Bone Room on Sun, 20 Apr 2008 05:32:00 PST

Do Not Disrespect the Crinoids.

The woman came in looking VERY concerned. She looked around the shop for a minute, and in hushed tones explained that while she felt that the shop showed a great deal of respect for the specimens ther...
Posted by The Bone Room on Sun, 06 Apr 2008 12:57:00 PST

The Bone Room Presents...

Check out our first attempt at a how-to video! We would like to do a whole series of these, so let us know what you thin and what you would like to see in the future. ...
Posted by The Bone Room on Thu, 18 Oct 2007 02:13:00 PST

Pattern Recognition

On a sunny day here in Berkeley, two girls, of the 14-year old trendified sort, enter the shop and proceed to point and squeal as such customers are wont to do.Now, we see this everyday. Particular du...
Posted by The Bone Room on Sat, 22 Jul 2006 04:33:00 PST

Peppermint, Sure as Day

Recently, we placed an ad in Antique Trader magazine in search of antique human skulls for the shop. In our minds, we pictured legions of folks dusting off Grandpa's old med-school skull and giving us...
Posted by The Bone Room on Sat, 04 Mar 2006 05:13:00 PST

A clue!

This morning when I came in, I found a note on the counter. It was on a yellow piece of paper ripped from a notebook, scrawled hastily in an unfamiliar hand. It said "Kangaroo Eating Oranges in Denver...
Posted by The Bone Room on Sat, 27 Aug 2005 03:43:00 PST

Missed connection

Yesterday a lady called the store and asked about Ducky, our albino Burmese python. I told her that he was a shop pet and not for sale, having been with us for all of his eighteen years. "That's all r...
Posted by The Bone Room on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

On the proper care and feeding of paperweights

About a week ago, there was an odd message on the anwsering machine. "Hello", said the message, "I have a tarantula in some sort of resin." Then the machine hung up. We thought it odd, but a week pass...
Posted by The Bone Room on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Cannibalism 101

A lady was in with her son the other day, looking into buying a human skull. She only wanted the upper part, and explained that she allready had a mandible. Then she looked at her son and he laughed a...
Posted by The Bone Room on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

I very mch think...

...I might greatly like a dingo.
Posted by The Bone Room on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST