La Passe — Charlotte Bruneau is hopeful a teacher’s niece will help identify a skull she found on her property.
“I was walking in the trees at our new land and found it on the ground,” she said. “I was walking with my dog Scruffy.”
Charlotte, 6, and a Grade 1 student at Westmeath Public School, brought the skull to school to show her classmates. But, that was only after fellow classmate Gavin brought a leg bone to show everyone.
She knows it’s not human, because the snout is too long.
“I think it’s a fox head,” Charlotte said. “It has a long nose like a fox.
“I think an animal ate it.”
When asked if she thought it could be any different kind of animal skull, Charlotte thought maybe a deer or turtle head.
Teacher Anne Bromley said she would ask her niece, who works at the Royal Ontario Musueum, to check out the skull and see if she could identify it.
When Charlotte’s classmates were asked what kind of animal the skull may have belonged to, there was no shortage of answers, including bear cub, baby dinosaur, shark, flying dinosaur, wolf, tiger, snake or dog.
Charlotte was a bit skeptical when someone said dinosaur.
“Dinosaurs are only in Alberta,” she said. “That’s what my mom told me.”
