Some museums have flesh-eating beetles on staff to clean off skeletons

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An animal skeleton is made up of hundreds of tiny bones, many of which are too fragile to be handled by human hands. That’s why many osteology departments at museums have a special team exclusively devoted to the careful cleaning of these specimens: A colony of millions of flesh-eating beetles . Read more…

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Some museums have flesh-eating beetles on staff to clean off skeletons

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