Wednesday, 18 October 2017

"Thar she rots!," or, why you can find whale bones in horse dung in Raleigh, NC

quote [ Why a Local Museum Keeps Burying Whales Under Raleigh, North Carolina.
(It mostly has to do with grease.) ]

I always wondered how they prepared very large skeletons for display, and had no idea that horse dung was the perfect answer.
[SFW] [science & technology] [+1 Interesting]
[by TM@9:27pmGMT]

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mechanical contrivance said @ 2:46pm GMT on 19th Oct

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