Manchester Museum at UMAN

I figure if the football team in ManU the Uni must be UMan

This small 30’/10m 3 ton, distant relative of Tyrannosaurs was found in NW North America

Posonous frogs and iguana

Golden pheasant and the vicious looking Harpy eagle

European porcupine and pangolin and armored ant eater

For someone familiar with New Bedford;s Whaling Museum, this was a wee whale and an African hunting dog

And who doesn’t love a platypus?

When I saw this butterfly sculpture I thought of the floating heads at Kelvingrove.  The mussel is nearly 2′ long

Mummy twins

Muade was a tigon with her father a lion and mother a tiger.  She lived for a dozen years in the Manchester zoo dying in 1949.  Her skin was preserved and mounted in 2015.  Looks so very alive

And like in a store window this Alaskan Kin crab, about 3-4 m wide of the legs were stretched out was startling