Skeletons: Museum of Osteology

Oklahoma


An army of flesh-eating beetles helps this touristy museum's curators prepare the bones of dead animals (many from zoos) for a new life on display. There are more than 350 skeletons here and over 100,000 individual bones, including those of an American buffalo and an African bush elephant.


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