Natural history
Connected to...
Goat skull
Anas platyrhynchos
Pristis sawfish
Mollusca
Herpestes
Snake skin
Cyanerpes cyaneus
Troglodydes troglodydes
Strix aluco
Taxidermy specimen of an ostrich egg.
Parus major
Shark jaw.
Ovis aries
Carduelis carduelis
Ceratitida
Aves
Ammonite
Leaflet
Alcedo atthis
Pteridophyta
Sciurus carolinensis
Corvus monedula
Cow skull
Passer domesticus
Rhamphorhynchus
Gallus domesticus
Belemnite abbreviatus
Cyprinus, cyprinous
Cow mandible
Anura, common frog, rana temporaria
Alca torda
Physeter catodon
Lepidoptera
Gastropoda
Model poison dart frog
Collection Information
These objects are only a part of our collections, of which there are more than 350,000 objects. This information comes from our collections database. Some of this is incomplete and there may be errors. This part of the website is also still under construction, so there may be some fields repeated or incorrectly formatted information.
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