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a person's hands wearing white gloves holding a megalodon tooth

Megalodon Teeth

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Find out more about the megalodon, a gigantic extinct shark species, and why its fossilised teeth are so special.
A taxidermy badger in a sitting position with a white background.

Female Representation in Natural Science Collections

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Rebecca Machin celebrates the beautiful and amazing females animals here in the collections of Leeds Museums and Galleries.
Grey table with two skulls next to each other. The Dalton Parlours skull with missing pieces before the conservation work and a plastic skull next to it to help the reconstruction

Skeletons: Coming Face to Face with the Past

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Conservator Emma pieces together the Dalton Parlours (AD 200 -370) skull on display in the Skeletons: Our Buried Bones exhibition.