Dolphin Skeleton - Capturing Nature Print Size:A2 or the perfect portable purse

or the perfect portable purse for anyone who never outgrew their dinosaur devotion

Dr Lin Sutherland is a Senior Research Fellow in Geoscience at the Australian Museum

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Dolphin Skeleton - Capturing Nature Print Size:A2 or the perfect portable purseSkeleton of the Common Dolphin, Delphinus delphis. Photographed in the 1870s by Henry Barnes, and featured in the catalogue of the exhibition: Capturing Nature, Early scientific photography at the Australian Museum 1857 1893. In the 1870s most field collectors dealt only in animal skins or specimens preserved in spirits. Whole animals were difficult to prepare in the field, and flattened skins were far easier to transport and store. Skeletons were the