Common Guillemot / Common Murre skull (Uria aalge) This was a very old

This was a very old male dog and as you can see from the photographs

This is a lovely skull of the Manx shearwater Manx shearwater skull Puffinus puffinus

They are woven by women and given to young men after their initiation and are worn on the chest or sometimes on the back and even occasionally held in the teeth

It is still an impressive fossil having been found on the seabed in the North sea

two parietals (both left) and a sphenoid

Common Guillemot / Common Murre skull (Uria aalge) This was a very oldThis is a skull of the common guillemot, also known as the common murre Uria aalge. This species is a large member of the Auk family with circumpolar distribution of the sub species in the Northern waters. They breed in huge colonies with a density of up to 20 pairs on one square metre of rock. They are expert divers with diving depths of 180m being recorded in search of food. This specimen was from a dead bird washed up on the shore. It is a very