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Wood mouse, Apodemus sylvaticus) The front incisors of mice never stop growing, a trait shared by all rodents from the tiniest mouse to the largest capybara.

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Cartoon image of a hatchet fish on a museum pass

Until 1938 whale carcasses were buried in the Museum grounds so that their flesh would decay leaving only the skeletons.