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grrlscientist writes "While many natural history museum study skin collections have specimens that are more than 100 years old, most museum tissue collections are very recent — in fact, many were initiated during the 1980s. Due to the perishable nature of tissues, they are expensive to maintain and must be carefully managed and continually replenished. Unfortunately, funding shortages and other considerations have made it more difficult for museums to collect animals as often as they did in the past. Therefore, tissues from both wild and captive animals are limited, particularly those from rare and difficult-to-collect animals, such as lories."
It seems kinda obvious that long term storage of tissue samples is hard.
I thought England had plenty of lorries.
You aren't parsing correctly.
natural history museum study skin collections
"Study skin" == skins meant for studying.
"study skin collections" == collections of skins meant for studying.
"natural history museum study skin collections" == collections of skins meant for studying owned by natural history museum.
...many natural history museums'...
Our museum needs 6 lorax skins for its archives. We have found the last 4 known living specimens, and have dutifully skinned them, but we still need 2 more. Any help will be appreciated.
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I just wondered if there's a slashdot achievement for posting in worst story ever (in before Jon Katz new here etc).
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