Open again after a five-year hiatus, the London museum, named after the 18th-century surgeon John Hunter, contains everything from a baby crocodile emerging from its egg, to a human femur
Among Hunter’s preparations are a human femur, or thigh bone , and, below that, a preserved head of a king vulture. The moment a baby crocodile emerged from its egg was also immortalised.
These are part of a staggering collection of more than 13,000 specimens of some 500 species accrued by Hunter, around 2000 of which are being exhibited at the museum.Microscope slide of a lizard.Also shown are microscope slides of a butterfly wing and lizard prepared by 19th-century histologist and microscopist John Quekett, and the long tongue of a chameleon .New Scientist video
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