Inside the Natural History Museum
Description
We examine a skull to discover if prehistoric Britons were cannibals, then pull a killer shark from a pool of formaldehyde to find out how it helped swimmers win Olympic gold. We dare a curator to handle a famous gem said to kill all who touch it, then enter a once top-secret room where WWII spymasters created a bomb that came within a hair's-breadth of killing Hitler. We view the remains of Barbary Lions to find out why they spent their lives in the Tower of London, then consider a perfectly preserved specimen of a Dodo, to discover whether the flightless bird's extinction was really as inevitable as we have been led to believe.
Runtime
48 min
Series
Subjects
Contributor
Geography
Genre
Date of Publication
2011
Database
Alexander Street
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