Big Boned

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People sometimes get quite excited when they come across large bones in the wild or on farms. Occasionally these might turn out to be moa bones, but more often than not they’re common cow or sheep bones. So we keep a full articulated cow skeleton in the Land Vertebrates Department to help identify such “discoveries”.

 

Audio tour  Audio Tour

Join Dr Tom Trnski, Research Manager and John Early, Curator of Entomology and get closer to the stories, tales and historical information for this unique collection of objects.

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 Video Introduction Director's Introduction

 Object Gallery  Object Gallery

Explore Secrets Revealed objects and listen to their stories


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