Why is it more common to find skulls of dead animals standalone rather than skulls and their skeletons?

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Why is it more common to find skulls of dead animals standalone rather than skulls and their skeletons?

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I’ll add to all above comments, that skulls are more readily identified as skeletal remains. There are hundred bones in a vertebrate skeleton. Most people would recognize a skull for what it is, but not a tarsal bone, for example.