Medically prepared human disarticulated skull bones This species is a large

This species is a large member of the Auk family with circumpolar distribution of the sub-species in the Northern waters

All the teeth are still present in the jaw

These are long lived birds with a life span of over 55 years although many of the juvenile die in their first long migration

This example was part of a collection that came from a medical college

also known as the common murre Uria aalge

Medically prepared human disarticulated skull bones This species is a largeThese bones were part of a collection from a medical school museum. This is a collection of disarticulated skull bones comprising of the frontal, two parietals (both left) and a sphenoid. The parietals still have the medical school collection number on them. All the bones have a very pale white colour which would suggest that they were prepared in the second half of the last century.