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Inch Snake

Closely related to the less elusive Centimetre Snake, both of which are fondly regarded in zoologist circles as being the easiest animals to measure

Classified as: Those that are Long and Thin 

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Yellow Belly Fructose Snake

These snakes have a few colour variations, purple and green, orange and green and sometimes red and yellow and have particularly soft skin

Classified as: Those that are Delicious / Those that are Long and Thin

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Luceat Watermeal

A free floating plant that grows best in dense colonies in undisturbed water. This type prefers higher temperatures than most Watermeals and is much preferred to others due to its lustrous shine

Classified as: Things that are Shiny

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Microscope Samples (Various)

(top row left-to-right) 1. Parvus Asteroidera  2. Halecium - a genus of Hydroza. found in large colonies in al oceans 3. a fur sample from behind the ear of a white cat, taken in order to analyse how it is so incredibly soft (middle row left-to-right) 4. Ox Skin sample 5. It is unclear what this is as the hand writing is difficult to read 6. Soctopus fibre (bottom row left-to-right) 7. Annelida Rubella - a type of earthworm 8. Hydrozoa Anthomedusae - an thecae hydroid 9. Antedon (very young) - a genus of free-swimming, stemless crinoids

Classified as: Other

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Microscope Samples (Various)

1. this jumping flea specimen was part of Professor William Fricke’s famed flea circus 2. a sample of the venom of the “Incredibly Deadly Viper” discovered by Prof. Montgomery Montgomery

Classified as: Those that are Difficult to Contain

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Flying Fish Roe (Microscope Sample)

This is not fish Roe that is able to fly, it is the Roe (the internal egg masses in the ovaries, or the released external egg masses of fish) of the Flying Fish

Classified as: Things that Become Other Things / Those that are Delicious

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Dual Head Worm Snake (two samples)

This remarkable creature navigates by using echolocation and is most easily identifiable by its unique tail which has a ninety-degree bend with a gold and black striped tip

Classified as: Those that are Long and Thin

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Soctopus

This particular soctopus was previously kept in an aquarium where it was notoriously difficult to keep in its tank, it was eventually discovered that at night it would escape from its cage in search of extra food

Classified as: Those that are Difficult to Contain

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Ignis Nudibranch

While often mistaken for the Spanish Dancer Nudibranch, this species is easily identifiable just by heating it up; when it reaches the correct temperature it begins to glow

Classified as: Things that Things See With

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Stick Insect Body Parts (Various)

Various body parts of various types of stick insect including : twig, branch , blah blah

Classified as: Those that are Long and Thin

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Microscope Samples (Various)

1. Ascaris Ceruleanis - a type of “giant roundworm”, parasitic worms found in humans 2. Betula Phasmatodea - these are skin cells of what is more commonly known as the Birch Stick Insect

Classified as: Those that are Long and Thin

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Vampire Bat (Viago)

Viago the vampire became a vampire in 1832, he asked his familiar to send him to New Zealand to follow the love of his life but the wrong postage was put on the box and when he eventually got there she had remarried

Classified as: Things that Become Other Things

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Microscope Samples (Various)

(far left) 1. Shine Flea (top row left-to-right) 2. Snail Mucus 3. Tridacna Foilea - a sample of some of the pretties of the giant clam family 4. Luceat Watermeal Sample - more information here (bottom row left-to-right) 5. Betta Fish scales (individual) 6. Decorative Caudal fin of a Betta Fish 7. Dragonfly Wing

Classified as: Things that are Shiny

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Milliono Lamprey Head

The adult lamprey is characterized by a toothed, funnel-like sucking mouth

Classified as: Those that are Delicious

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Microscope Samples (Various) :

1. Blinky Fish Eye (one of three) - the Blinky Fish is a very rare species of fish which, as a result of a nuclear mutation, has three eyes 2. Oculi Fish - the top of the four samples is an actual eye and the bottom three scales the could fish has which look just like eyes in order to confuse predators

Classified as: Things that Things See With

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Iridescae Lucanidae

This species of beetle are popular for their particularly shiny shells that seem to show different colours when seen from different angles

Classified as: Things that are Shiny

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False Beetle (Various)

These beetles all look almost exactly like different species but can be identified by the shape of their shells (square, almond or oval) The species imitated by these specimens include: the Blue Mint Beetle, the Cardinal Beetle and the Purple Jewel Beetle

Classified in: Things that are Shiny