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    • 100s of tiny gecko bones in a plastic bag waiting for analysis.
    Rights: Lachie Scarsbrook Published 6 April 2022 Size: 800 KB Referencing Hub media

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

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