The center's specimens include an African horned owl named Wendy, Fumetta the red-legged brown owl, and two barn owls named Snoopy and Heidi.
The returned specimens included "a second Tyrannosaurus skeleton; a dinosaur called an oviraptor, which is an egg-eating thing," Bell said.
Conover reflects on the nature of roads by travelling six specimens, including a West Bank highway, an Andean logging route, and a Himalayan ice trail.
The specimens included a tooth, fragments from the scalp, bones such as rib and pelvis bones and remnants of the death shroud.
On March 26th she sailed into Manzanillo, in Mexico, bearing a trove of specimens including a dozen or so Pompeii worms.
Sotheby's will be offering several impressive specimens, including a large brilliant-yellow pillow-shaped diamond, at its Dec. 11 sale.
The exhibition will trace the evolution of the science of forensics, including fingerprinting and DNA evidence, borrowing from collections normally closed to the public such as the pathology museum at Bart's hospital, which is lending specimens including a liver with a stab wound, and the Met's "Black Museum", which is lending Crippen and Jack the Ripper material.
Dr. Barbara Thiers, the herbarium director, showed off some of the rarest specimens, including a fragile, tiny moss (Ulota darwinii) collected by Charles Darwin in Tierra del Fuego on the Voyage of the Beagle from 1831 to 1836, and a microscopic fungus collected on Dec. 12, 1900 by George Washington Carver.
Uncovered from sandstone at Koobi Fora, badlands near Lake Turkana in Kenya, the specimens included a well-preserved skull of a late juvenile with a relatively large braincase and a long, flat face, which has been designated KNM-ER 62000 (62000 for short).
These specimens included a control using reinforced concrete column without strengthening.
