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Bag of gecko bones

100s of tiny gecko bones in a plastic bag waiting for analysis.

A menagerie of the minutiae: hundreds of gecko bones are stored in the back shelves of museums waiting for analysis.

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Rights: Lachie Scarsbrook
Published: 6 April 2022Size: 797.44 KB
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