I heard many interesting science stories I heard about today was about the specimen preparation from Jack and Moe. One of these was about a sea lion who was caught in a fishing net. The sea lion skull healed around the net, and it lived the rest of it's life with a fishing net embedded into the skull.
Another science story I heard today was about the maceration of skulls, or placing the skull in water so that the bacteria will remove the flesh and clean the skull. Sometimes, during maceration, shotgun shells will fall out of the skull into the water. These shells are previously unseen until the maceration process. Also, other things can be found through the maceration process; once a stingray barb was found in the skull of an animal after the maceration.
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