I realize that today is Wednesday, and not more than three weeks ago I committed to posting on Sunday night/Monday morning by the code of the blogger. However, this week there is extenuating circumstances. As a part of my Scientific Illustration class we visited the Shedd Aquarium. So I decided to postpone by blog entry in order to include the applicable pictures.

Normally my Scientific Illustration class meets in the basement of the Field museum. We draw from 9-noon. Then we take an hour for lunch. After the break our instructor takes us to one of the many departments where researchers, scientists, and field museum staff work. This week our instructor took us to see one of the specimen prep labs. In this lab there is a room where they keep cages of Dermestidae beetles. These beetles are used to clean off skin and meat from skeletons. This is one of the steps in preparing a skeleton specimen. The skull picture that I have included this week is a giraffe skull that was in the beetle room while I was there....enjoy!

-Kyle