Great Auk Skull Replica

Description

Great auk skull replica measures 6.0 x 2.2  x 2.0 inches. The Pinguinus impennis is a museum-quality polyurethane resin cast of a California Academy of Sciences specimen. 2-part skull (separate cranium and mandible). 1:1 scale. Made in USA.

The great auk is a species of flightless alcid that became extinct in the mid-19th century. They were carnivorous and flightless that lived along sea coasts.

Sailors later discovered modern penguins and named them after the great auk due to their phyical resemblane, even through thespecies share no close relationship.

The great auk bred on rocky, isolated islands with easy access to the ocean and a plentiful food supply, a rarity in nature that provided only a few breeding sites for the great auks.

Scientific Classification

• Kingdom: Animalia
• Phylum: Chordata
• Class: Aves
• Order: Charadriiformes
• Family: Alcidae
• Genus: †Pinguinus
• Species: †P. impennis
• Binomial name: †Pinguinus impennis
• Conservation Status: Extinct

Gale, the great auk skull replica, went first, drawing a card with a double yellow square. She moved her token quickly along the winding tack, passing the grumdrop trees with a happy click of her beak.

Gulp, the California gull skull replica, he drew a single blue card. he carefully eyed the shortcut trail across the rainbow river, hoping to take the lead on his next turn.

Cliff, the common murre skull replica, got the card with a peppermint candy cane on it, which immediately advanced his token far ahead to the Peppermint forest.

Dwayne, the Darwin’s finches set of twelve skull replicas, consists of a set of twelve different finch skulls, they shared a single gingerbread token but argued over every move.