Ode to a cardboard box…
Do you know what’s relatively easy to fundraise for? Conserving and moving a huge elephant skeleton. Do you know what’s relatively impossible to fundraise for? The packing materials needed to […]
Preserving a skeleton: Part 2
After the bones are clean, they are marked and labelled to avoid being misplaced or lost, especially smaller bones, when they’re not properly labelled. The specimen number is then written […]
Preserving a skeleton: Part 1
Less than 10% of the animal kingdom are vertebrates – meaning they have a backbone/skeleton. So, why is it important to preserve the skeleton if only a small portion of […]