Oh! So you think you know what this unearthly thing is? It's featured in one of our "deepest" exhibitions. Take your pick. Which is it?
a). Leftovers from the set of "Snakes on a Plane."
b). A new species of tapeworm, discovered in Madagascar.
c). Locks of hair thought to have come from Medusa's head.
d). Calamari on the drying rack in Julia Child's kitchen.
e). Something even more bizarre.
If you guessed "e," you were right! This is the first complete giant squid specimen available for study--found off the coast of Newfoundland in 1874. See more oddly fascinating things with In Search of Giant Squid.
Only ONE more venue: The Sternberg Museum of Natural History, Hays, KS.
My guess is it is a dried-out octopus hung up on display. Pretty weird whatever it is.
Posted by: Acai | September 28, 2009 at 07:14 PM
"The whole room was covered in information," said a 5th-grade boy of his visit to the exhibit at California University of Pennsylvania, the penultimate host of In Search of Giant Squid. "I learned all kinds of facts that I did not know about before." [Quoted in "President's Perspective," Winter 2009]
Posted by: Ann Carper | May 04, 2009 at 03:54 PM