Six Ways To Prepare a Coelacanth - Shelf Life #3

The story of the Museum's coelacanth shows how natural history collections can yield answers and inspire questions for hundreds of years. Ichthyology Curator Melanie L. J. Stiassny presents the ultimate fish tale and offers a primer on specimen prep.

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For more about this iconic prehistoric fish, and the longstanding mystery that was put to rest when the Museum’s specimen was dissected, head over to the episode website: http://www.amnh.org/shelf-life/shelf-life-six-ways-to-prepare-a-coelacanth

Shelf Life is a collection for curious minds—opening doors, pulling out drawers, and taking the lids off some of the incredible, rarely seen items in the American Museum of Natural History. Over the next year, Shelf Life will explore topics like specimen preparation, learn why variety is vital, and meet some of the people who work in the Museum collections.

For more, visit http://www.amnh.org/ShelfLife

Series Trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2PmDLfWt1Q

Episode 1: 33 Million Things
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NR-xl7W0vo

Episode 2: Turtles and Taxonomy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmXqn9AW2Kc

Episode 3: Six Ways to Prepare a Coelacanth
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqL17uabbso

Episode 4: Skull of the Olinguito
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEYfY0mRc5k

Episode 5: How To Time Travel To a Star
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5xJqFtPGAA

Episode 6: The Tiniest Fossils
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLSa8cGJixQ

Episode 7: The Language Detectives
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92IvcuQF9cg

Episode 8: Voyage of the Giant Squid
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W47by1jPTPw

Episode 9: Kinsey’s Wasps
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHc5l4gQsro

Episode 10: The Dinosaurs of Ghost Ranch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=567bv6xmuss

Episode 11: Green Grow the Salamanders
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uV9Z-pHr-nE

Episode 12: Six Extinctions In Six Minutes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZuwOgcS1W0

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