Everyone loves bones, especially dinosaur bones.
Big bones...
And little bones!
Standard mummified remains, and non-standard.
Surely you know that the ancient Egyptians removed the brains with tweezers shoved up the nostrils before mummifying those kings and queens... Hmmm. I can think of a few folks I wouldn't mind mummifying! (Zing!)
This leathery lookin' dude is a big-horned bison. The interpretive information plaque says it's extinct. (Duh!) I think what it meant to say is that that particular species is extinct. Because it was found near Fairbanks, Alaska the horn sheaths and hooves are still intact. The freezing temperatures are what made that possible.
The lower part of that display are the remains of the rear lower leg and foot of the second most abundant critter, la horse! This represents the last of the true wild horses (not counting related asses and zebras.) What we think of as "wild horses" are really descended from stock that somehow found its way from human owners and reverted to a wild state.
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