Authorities look for skull used for classes

URBANA – University of Illinois anthropologists and police are looking for a human skull used for teaching purposes that's been missing from the anthropology department for about a month.

Steven Leigh, head of the anthropology department, said the skull was used in an undergraduate class on human osteology.

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