The specimens aren't just sitting here gathering dust.

They're actively used for research with big impact.

When you pick a little whole organism, you can study not just their fur and their skeleton but their internal anatomy and all that kind of stuff.

Everything from a polar bear embryo to bats to giant fish are stored in Alcohol.

They thought it was extinct, and in 1938 it was discovered.

Pickled mammals are studied to find out which species can transmit diseases.

One of the ways we study those diseases is to find the mammal host for the virus.