#3d reference

Whole Skeletons: Downloadable 3D models

Idaho Virtualization Laboratory: Absolutely massive collection featuring hundreds of individual bones. Check out the Complete Skeleton collection or the Modern Osteology collection for lots of craniums and skulls.

Natural History Museum Vienna: a good selection of full skeletons plus scanned specimens.

The University of Edinburgh: This collection is on the small side, but has a few interesting, complete skeletons to look at.

Natural Sciences Museum of Barcelona A huge collection with an assortment of skulls and skeletons.

Mammal Research Institute: many skulls with the occasional whole skeleton.

Auckland Museum: Someone went to incredible lengths to document every single bone of the Moa bird. Scroll down for an assembled skeleton and a scattering of scanned taxidermy animals.

Whole Skeletons: Not downloadable 3D models

Biodiversity: absolutely massive collection of skulls with tons of rodents and a unique focus on dentition. There are complete skeletons mixed throughout.

Nebraska Public Media: Skulls with a smattering of complete skeletons.

Blackburn Lab: Lots of great stuff in this one: complete skeletons, comparative anatomy, some soft tissue anatomy, and of course lots of skulls.

Aquarium-Museum of Liège: A small collection of skeletons.

Artist-Joana Maria: Antlers and a few full skeletons of extinct animals.

Museum of Natural History: A moderately sized but nice collection of complete dinosaur skeletons!

Whole Skeletons: For Sale

Animals & Pets 3D Models: This is one of the largest selections of complete skeletons on Sketchfab. The only caveat is I’m not sure how scientifically accurate they are.

Puppy3D: While this gallery is mostly animals for sale, there are some unique skeletons scattered in there. It’s also nice having animal bodies to reference.

3D Big Game : Mostly scanned specimens, but a good resource for comparing antlers and horns. Downloadable for pay.

Artist-Yacine Brinis: This person mostly sells model packs, but they do have some nice skull packs as well as a couple complete skeletons.

Skulls: Downloadable

Witmer Lab at Ohio University: This collection emphasizes bird, reptile, and dinosaur skulls with some interesting anatomy such as brains and vascular systems included.

Natural History Museum Imaging: this one has a lot of individual bones and fossil scans to sift through, but it features an interesting assortment of whale craniums.

RISD Nature Lab: an incredible assortment of hundreds of scanned specimens ranging from seashells, taxidermized specimens, and of course lots of skulls.

Museum of the University of Valencia of Natural History: Lots of fossils, lichens, and shells with a scattering of interesting skulls. Check out the collection section for vertebrate skulls, bird skulls and early hominid apes.

University of Dundee Museum Collections: Mostly skulls with a few scanned specimens and some invertebrate models.

University of Wyoming Libraries: A massive gallery with skulls and many bone fragments. The Museum of Vertebrates collection is going to be your best bet.

Professor - Eric Bauer: A smaller collection of a few skulls and individual bones, but they are high quality.

Paleontology Lab at the Université de Liege: A nice selection of both extinct and extant animal skulls.

Skulls: not downloadable

California Academy of Sciences: So. Many. Skulls. Be sure to explore their collections for easier browsing!

Holliday Lab: Incredibly detailed views of reptile and avian facial anatomy.

Evans EvoMorph Lab: this collection has an emphasis on skulls, but what makes it notable is that many of the models have animated articulation.

Veterinarian Anatomy Munich: Ever wonder what the second premolar of a pig looks like? This resource is for you! While it emphasizes individual bones, they have been sorted into collections for easier viewing. Please note that this gallery features scans of preserved soft tissues such as muscles and organs. If you’re expecting dry bones, it may be a little shocking.

Oregon State University: In addition to plenty of skulls, there are also many scans of fish. Some models are, in fact, downloadable but they are not sorted into collections so you will need to do a lot of sorting.