Saturday 24 March 2012

Oldest US natural history museum offers rare peek

Ned S. Gilmore, collections manager of vertebrate zoology, shows a Hellbender salamander, in the collection at the Academy of Natural Sciences Friday, March 23, 2012 in Philadelphia. The Academy is celebrating its bicentennial by offering the general public some rare behind-the-scenes tours of their some 18 million specimens. . (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)The Academy of Natural Sciences has never been one to brag.


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