• Music: The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets - Return to Melanesia

science museum basement

This black rat snake was showing off its extraordinary climbing ability.



The monotrope and the eft are artificial; not sure about the leaves and stuff.


More fake monotrope, and some taxidermy rodents.


An Atlantic salmon peeks out.


An anglerfish archerfish lurks in artificial mangrove roots.


I didn't get this fellow's name, but they were hanging on in a shore exhibit that was intermittently jostled with wave action.