What's This?
Frozen Tissue
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You're looking at a specimen from the Museum's Frozen Tissue Collection.
Can you guess what it is?
feather of a parrot
skin of a humpback whale
beak of a penguin
tongue of a tyrannosaur
Nope. Try again!
Image Credits:
vial illustration (sans double-helix), courtesy of Eucalyp via the Noun Project; all specimens from the Frozen Tissue Collection, frilled leaf-tailed gecko: AMNH / Denis Finnin; cryovat, test tubes: AMNH / Craig Chesek; humpback whale: John J. Mosesso / NBII; coyote: AMNH.