The researchers suggest that superworms offer a “practical alternative” to existing skeletal cleaning methods.
Superworms, a mealworm-like form of beetle larva commonly used as pet food, are efficient cleaners of skeletons, according to a study published in PLOS One by Fatemeh Rastekar of Ferdowsi University ...
Preparing skeletal specimens for display in museums or for forensic studies requires the bones to be thoroughly cleaned to ...
The Lee Kong Chiang Natural History Museum is seeking to raise S$1 million to conserve and display the skeleton of the whale.