ABSTRACT
The smell precluded bringing the specimens into any clinical medical facility at the university. Fortunately, space was provided in the Medical School Anatomy Department, where medical students dissected cadavers. In the 1970s, John Ogden, the Chairman of Department of Orthopedics at the Yale University School of Medicine and a member of the Human Growth and Development Study Unit at Yale, in New Haven, Connecticut, was interested in comparative skeletal development. Unfortunately, due to small samples sizes for each species, it was only possible to accomplish a generalization of the radiographic indicators of skeletal maturity in cetaceans. In order to create a single line drawing of the skeletal components, due to the misalignment, the approximate position of the bones was only possible. A high-resolution bone algorithm was selected that would maximize the edge enhancement. To the best of our knowledge, the individual never published the data.
