Daphne
works in the Department of Zoology and is part of the team responsible
for identifying mammal specimens. The Museum contains over 70 million
specimens of plants, animals and minerals. Museum scientists, such as
Daphne, use the collection to classify, that is, to describe
and categorise the diversity of the natural world.
Despite
modern methods of identifying specimens such as DNA sequencing, the
most common method is to compare them with other specimens in the Museum's
collections. Using the Museum's mammal skull collection, Daphne began
to hunt down the identity of the mysterious beast...
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