The #BadZooarch season comes earlier and earlier every year and I’m gonna fucking lose my shit.
I love this time of year when the biologically absurd skeletons start waking up from their hibernation. The webbed feet bones, the internal exoskeleton bones, the buttery wing bones.
August 23, 2026 at 7:32 AM
The #BadZooarch season comes earlier and earlier every year and I’m gonna fucking lose my shit.
September 22, 2026 at 10:34 AM
🏺🧪 Might as well start a bookmarked thread of my #BadZooarch posts since it sounds like I will never spend a Halloween in peace ever again.
Special thanks to @precatlady.bsky.social who I blame entirely for this.
I hate being a zooarchaeologist, we get no respect from you people 😭
Special thanks to @precatlady.bsky.social who I blame entirely for this.
I hate being a zooarchaeologist, we get no respect from you people 😭
ENOUGH.
September 23, 2025 at 10:05 AM
🏺🧪 Might as well start a bookmarked thread of my #BadZooarch posts since it sounds like I will never spend a Halloween in peace ever again.
Special thanks to @precatlady.bsky.social who I blame entirely for this.
I hate being a zooarchaeologist, we get no respect from you people 😭
Special thanks to @precatlady.bsky.social who I blame entirely for this.
I hate being a zooarchaeologist, we get no respect from you people 😭
the Halloween decoration designers of the world continue their attacks against me with #badzooarch 😭
August 10, 2025 at 8:26 AM
the Halloween decoration designers of the world continue their attacks against me with #badzooarch 😭
🏺🧪 And of course, I wrote a new instalment in my #BadZooarch look at those horrible Halloween plastic skeletons.
animalarchaeology.com/2025/10/30/t...
animalarchaeology.com/2025/10/30/t...
The (Entirely Inaccurate, Completely Nonsensical) Plastic Skeleton Wars Continue
Let’s be real – you know exactly what this blog post is about. I’ve been writing about these cursed plastic objects for years now. After doing an overview of the worst iterations …
animalarchaeology.com
December 31, 2025 at 8:59 PM
🏺🧪 And of course, I wrote a new instalment in my #BadZooarch look at those horrible Halloween plastic skeletons.
animalarchaeology.com/2025/10/30/t...
animalarchaeology.com/2025/10/30/t...
anyway if you wanna catch up on the horrors inflicted on me by Halloween #BadZooarch you can find the thread here. ⬇️
bsky.app/profile/anim...
bsky.app/profile/anim...
🏺🧪 Might as well start a bookmarked thread of my #BadZooarch posts since it sounds like I will never spend a Halloween in peace ever again.
Special thanks to @precatlady.bsky.social who I blame entirely for this.
I hate being a zooarchaeologist, we get no respect from you people 😭
Special thanks to @precatlady.bsky.social who I blame entirely for this.
I hate being a zooarchaeologist, we get no respect from you people 😭
ENOUGH.
September 22, 2026 at 10:56 AM
anyway if you wanna catch up on the horrors inflicted on me by Halloween #BadZooarch you can find the thread here. ⬇️
bsky.app/profile/anim...
bsky.app/profile/anim...
🏺🧪 I’m gonna have to make another entry in my #BadZooarch blog post series this year, huh.
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animalarchaeology.com/tag/bad-zooa...
bad zooarch – Animal Archaeology
Posts about bad zooarch written by Dr Alex Fitzpatrick
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September 23, 2025 at 6:01 AM
🏺🧪 I’m gonna have to make another entry in my #BadZooarch blog post series this year, huh.
animalarchaeology.com/tag/bad-zooa...
animalarchaeology.com/tag/bad-zooa...
🏺🧪 My most recent #BadZooarch post is from last year, where I finally sat down and tried to figure out why the hell people seem to love these horribly inaccurate and downright bad to look at animal skeleton decorations to begin with.
animalarchaeology.com/2024/10/25/w...
animalarchaeology.com/2024/10/25/w...
Why Do We Love (Plastic, Inaccurate) Skeletons So Much? A Halloween Investigation
This blog post is part of the first ever Real Archaeology festival! Myself, along with several other archaeology-focused content creators, have come together to celebrate real, factual (not pseudos…
animalarchaeology.com
September 23, 2025 at 4:09 PM
🏺🧪 My most recent #BadZooarch post is from last year, where I finally sat down and tried to figure out why the hell people seem to love these horribly inaccurate and downright bad to look at animal skeleton decorations to begin with.
animalarchaeology.com/2024/10/25/w...
animalarchaeology.com/2024/10/25/w...
🏺🧪 This one isn’t specifically about #BadZooarch but more of a little exploration into why the femur bone is often used as the go-to depiction of a bone in general (content warning - there is an image of a human femur included in this post).
animalarchaeology.com/2020/10/31/o...
animalarchaeology.com/2020/10/31/o...
One Bone to Represent Them All: The Enduring Legacy of the Femur Bone
Note: This blog post includes some images of human remains. Long time readers of this blog will know that Halloween is my favourite time to complain about skeletons – I mean, as much as I lov…
animalarchaeology.com
September 23, 2025 at 2:24 PM
🏺🧪 This one isn’t specifically about #BadZooarch but more of a little exploration into why the femur bone is often used as the go-to depiction of a bone in general (content warning - there is an image of a human femur included in this post).
animalarchaeology.com/2020/10/31/o...
animalarchaeology.com/2020/10/31/o...
🏺🧪 This year’s #BadZooarch Halloween blog post is now live!
Click through to see some funky looking rabbit, pigs, owls, and even elephants ⬇️
bsky.app/profile/anim...
Click through to see some funky looking rabbit, pigs, owls, and even elephants ⬇️
bsky.app/profile/anim...
🧪 Another Halloween, another batch of highly inaccurate and horrifying plastic skeleton decorations to look at in this year’s seasonally spooky blogpost.
And yes, the snail skeleton is addressed. Kinda. Ugh.
animalarchaeology.com/2025/10/30/t...
And yes, the snail skeleton is addressed. Kinda. Ugh.
animalarchaeology.com/2025/10/30/t...
The (Entirely Inaccurate, Completely Nonsensical) Plastic Skeleton Wars Continue
Let’s be real – you know exactly what this blog post is about. I’ve been writing about these cursed plastic objects for years now. After doing an overview of the worst iterations …
animalarchaeology.com
October 31, 2025 at 1:11 PM
🏺🧪 This year’s #BadZooarch Halloween blog post is now live!
Click through to see some funky looking rabbit, pigs, owls, and even elephants ⬇️
bsky.app/profile/anim...
Click through to see some funky looking rabbit, pigs, owls, and even elephants ⬇️
bsky.app/profile/anim...
Of course, this includes a Halloween-themed #BadZooarch blog post near the end of this month.
Reminder that you can subscribe to my blog (for free!) if you wanna keep up to date with posts and whatnot. I’m working to get a decent chunk of future posts written over the next few months so they should (finally!) be more regular.
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Animal Archaeology
All things archaeology but mostly dead animals.
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October 7, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Of course, this includes a Halloween-themed #BadZooarch blog post near the end of this month.
sadly since I deleted my Twitter account I no longer have my original #badzooarch threads BUT you can still find some of my writing on the horrific I phenomenon here:
animalarchaeology.com/tag/bad-zooa...
animalarchaeology.com/tag/bad-zooa...
bad zooarch – Animal Archaeology
Posts about bad zooarch written by Dr Alex Fitzpatrick
animalarchaeology.com
August 10, 2025 at 8:28 AM
sadly since I deleted my Twitter account I no longer have my original #badzooarch threads BUT you can still find some of my writing on the horrific I phenomenon here:
animalarchaeology.com/tag/bad-zooa...
animalarchaeology.com/tag/bad-zooa...
You can find previous years of #BadZooarch Halloween posts in the thread below ⬇️
bsky.app/profile/anim...
bsky.app/profile/anim...
🏺🧪 Might as well start a bookmarked thread of my #BadZooarch posts since it sounds like I will never spend a Halloween in peace ever again.
Special thanks to @precatlady.bsky.social who I blame entirely for this.
I hate being a zooarchaeologist, we get no respect from you people 😭
Special thanks to @precatlady.bsky.social who I blame entirely for this.
I hate being a zooarchaeologist, we get no respect from you people 😭
ENOUGH.
October 31, 2025 at 1:12 PM
You can find previous years of #BadZooarch Halloween posts in the thread below ⬇️
bsky.app/profile/anim...
bsky.app/profile/anim...