About The Global Collectors

The Global Collectors is the leading online supplier of precise museum quality animal and human skulls and skeletons replicas.

We provide the finest osteological specimens for professional educational facilities.

Mammals

Mammals are warm-blooded, typically furry animals that feed their young with milk. Most have longer, more upright legs than the sprawling limbs of reptiles, but in some mammals, one or both pairs of limbs have evolved into wings, flippers for swimming, or arms for climbing

Primates

Our species belongs to a group of mammals called primates, which includes monkeys and apes. Most have skeletons adapted to life in trees, with grasping hands and feet.

Whales and dolphins

Many mammals have adapted to life in water. The front legs of whales and dolphins have become flippers, and the hind limbs have all but disappeared. They swim by flexing their powerfully built backbone vertically

Rodents

Guinea pigs, squirrels, mice, and rats are all rodents—a large group of mammals characterized by curved front teeth used for gnawing. Many also have powerful hind legs.

Birds

Birds evolved from small, feathered dinosaurs whose skeletons changed as they adapted to life in the air. Their wrist bones fused; the breastbone became a keel to support flight muscles; the tail withered to a stump; and the spine and rib cage lost much of their flexibility. To save weight and aid flight, birds have air-filled bones and no teeth.

Birds of prey

These birds have strong clawed feet with opposable hind talons (claws) for grasping prey and a sharp, hooked beak for tearing flesh

Penguins

Members of the penguin family have adapted to life in the sea and lost the ability to fly. They still have the large keel and flight muscles of flying birds but use their forelimbs as flippers to “fly” through th

Pigeons and doves

Pigeons and doves include some of the strongest fliers in the bird world. Their huge keel bone supports flight muscles that make up more than a third of their body weight.

Fish

The skeletons of fish are usually delicatebecause their body weight is supported by water. Most fish move by using muscles on the side of the body to flex the backbone and tail. Instead of limbs,they have fins, which are used to steer.

Cartilaginous fish

Sharks belong to a class of fish known as cartilaginous fish because their skeletons are made not of bone but cartilage—a tough, pliable tissue also found in our ears, noses, and joints.

Bony fish

The vast majority of fish species have a skeleton hardened with calcium minerals to form bone. Most of these are ray-finned fish, with fins made of many slender bones.

Amphibians

Adult amphibians typically have legs and can move on land, but the young are legless, fishlike creatures that breathe with gills. Most amphibians spend part or even all of their life in water and usually lay their eggs in water.

Frogs and toads

Frogs have short, tailless bodies, powerful hind legs, and large mouths for snatching their prey

Newts and salamanders

Long, slender bodies and short legs typify these amphibians