Unfortunately, as we really got into dissecting our pigs picture taking fell to the wayside. For some reason I didn't want to get out my camera phone while my gloves were dripping with preservative fluid and chunks of tissue.

After we lifted the chest plate off, each group removed the chest cavity organs. Each organ was then separated, weighed, and described. We cut the heart into a saggital section and examined the chambers and heart valves. We eventually compared the fetal heart to a full sized pig heart. Adult pig hearts are enormous!

Each group cut a cross section of the lung and observed the the small bronchioles that deliver air to the deepest recesses of the lung.