February 14, 2017
Skeletons! The Museum of Osteology is in Oklahoma City and is adjacent to Skulls Unlimited International, the commercial venture that supplies skeletons the world over. The museum opened in 2010.
Oklahoma
From comparative anatomy to classification to adaptation
and locomotion, The Museum of Osteology has been designed with learning in mind.
Currently displaying nearly 300 skeletons from all corners of the world,
visitors have a unique opportunity to compare and contrast many rare species
normally not seen in museum exhibits. In addition, The museum features a variety
of North American specimens ranging from tiny mice and shrew skeletons to a 40
foot humpback whale.
--museum web site
It's an amazing place; much more informative than your typical natural history museum, which often have preserved (stuffed) animals in some sort of natural setting.
But, when you can see (literally) the under-foundations of all these animals, the similarities and common parts of all of them is really apparent. It almost seems that if you could stretch and shape individual bones, you could create pretty much any other animal--the basics are all shared.
Seeing that whales have "legs" is always astonishing.
