Cleaning bones?

One of my co-workers has a lot of rattlesnakes on his property. He found some bones (still looking for the skull) and gave them to me. Does anyone have tips on how to clean these?

Freeze them till summer and put them on an ant bed,theyll be shiny in a few days
Ive cleaned many skulls like this with natures perfect cleaning service

http://fossilfeather.deviantart.com/...ones-227306863

Around here we could just leave them out near a fire ant mound and they would take care of it.

I'm in city, no ant hills that I know of around here and I'd be worried if I left them out that the racoons (or another person) would take them. Could I bury them?

I'll check out the link, thanks!

I feed cooked chicken with bones to my dubias. The bones come out squeaky clean.

Noelle

That looks like a job for dermestid beetles you can usually find the larva in your local pet stores cricket bin (they look like fuzzy worms).
You can order larger amounts of dermestids from doubleds.org or bugsincyberspace.com

This is very fun. If you watch the show Oddities, some episodes give you advice on how to articulate skeletons. There is a member here who is really good at this ... can't remember the screen name.

http://www.faunaclassifieds.com/foru...8&postcount=67

DO NOT put snake bones on an ant mound. Ant mounds work fine for larger bones, but will damage thin bones. Your best bet is to order a small colony of dermestid beetles. They're inexpensive and can be kept in a 10 gallon lidless tank. The adult beetles look similar to mealworm beetles, and the larvae are those fuzzy things you see in cricket shipments sometimes. Make sure you keep the colony in a well ventilated location (because they can stink depending upon what carcass you've got in there) and spray them once in a while to make sure they stay hydrated. Don't keep them too wet or they will smell and the flesh will get really nasty.