It certainly should have seen a dentists lol. Why do you not wear overall/aprons etc to protect your clothes. I have always been impressed what the museums do to protect all these fossils certainly a pain staking job. I love the live presentations and even at my old age I have learned a lot. Unfortunately due to my disability I can’t get up to London anymore so seeing all this on You Tube is fantastic. So Thank you all if you.
Thank you for such a lovely comment, so glad that we can help bring the Museum to you through our videos! For conservation we wear lab coats and aprons depending on the work. Our conservationist here is wearing nitrile gloves and Tyvek sleeves in the video to protect her arms, but a lab coat was not needed in this case. Thanks for your question!
Good question! The mounted skull and skeleton in the gallery is a composite of bones from multiple individuals and is made up of both fossils and casts that were donated to the museum in 1907 by the Governors of the South Australian Museum in Adelaide. Most of the limbs and the caudal (tail) vertebrae are real fossils from Lake Callabonna in South Australia. The casts are replicates of real fossils in Australian museum collections. However, some bones, including parts of the skull, could not be replicated because the original fossils were too incomplete or fragmentary. These had to be modelled in plaster to reconstruct what the original bones would have looked like.
@@NaturalHistoryMuseum thank you for such a detailed reply. I is always interested to fit a landscape to a fossil. I presume that NHM holds the diprotodon holotype too.
@@Phil_Cleaver Yes, we certainly do have the holotype of Diprotodon. Its museum specimen number is NHMUK PV M 10796 and it is a fragment of a right lower jaw with a single lower incisor tooth preserved. The first director of the Natural History Museum, Sir Richard Owen, named Diprotodon based on this holotype specimen in 1838. It is one of a series of important fossils in the NHM’s Fossil Mammal Collection from caves near Wellington in New South Wales, Australia. You can find out more about the specific specimen via our data portal here if you are interested: data.nhm.ac.uk/object/3f7cd75f-807c-4a04-891d-d1fe6b74311e
Best dental care for my Diprotodon ever. 10/10 would ASMR again.
It certainly should have seen a dentists lol. Why do you not wear overall/aprons etc to protect your clothes. I have always been impressed what the museums do to protect all these fossils certainly a pain staking job. I love the live presentations and even at my old age I have learned a lot. Unfortunately due to my disability I can’t get up to London anymore so seeing all this on You Tube is fantastic. So Thank you all if you.
Thank you for such a lovely comment, so glad that we can help bring the Museum to you through our videos! For conservation we wear lab coats and aprons depending on the work. Our conservationist here is wearing nitrile gloves and Tyvek sleeves in the video to protect her arms, but a lab coat was not needed in this case. Thanks for your question!
Now waiting for ASMRtists to make a 'You're a fossil and I'm cleaning you' roleplay.
I am interested to know when did the museum acquire this specimen and do you know which location it came from?
Good question! The mounted skull and skeleton in the gallery is a composite of bones from multiple individuals and is made up of both fossils and casts that were donated to the museum in 1907 by the Governors of the South Australian Museum in Adelaide. Most of the limbs and the caudal (tail) vertebrae are real fossils from Lake Callabonna in South Australia. The casts are replicates of real fossils in Australian museum collections. However, some bones, including parts of the skull, could not be replicated because the original fossils were too incomplete or fragmentary. These had to be modelled in plaster to reconstruct what the original bones would have looked like.
@@NaturalHistoryMuseum thank you for such a detailed reply. I is always interested to fit a landscape to a fossil.
I presume that NHM holds the diprotodon holotype too.
@@Phil_Cleaver Yes, we certainly do have the holotype of Diprotodon. Its museum specimen number is NHMUK PV M 10796 and it is a fragment of a right lower jaw with a single lower incisor tooth preserved. The first director of the Natural History Museum, Sir Richard Owen, named Diprotodon based on this holotype specimen in 1838. It is one of a series of important fossils in the NHM’s Fossil Mammal Collection from caves near Wellington in New South Wales, Australia. You can find out more about the specific specimen via our data portal here if you are interested: data.nhm.ac.uk/object/3f7cd75f-807c-4a04-891d-d1fe6b74311e
Do you use special conservation brushes and sponges? Or are they regular make-up brushes and sponges?
Great question! The brush is extra soft goat hair and the sponge is a normal latex-free makeup sponge.
Do you have the rest of the skull or just the lower jaw?
We have the whole skull and the rest of the skeleton too! You can now see it in our mammals gallery :)
Oh this is dope
Good video the only thing I would say is you need to speak up a bit more so we can hear what you are saying 😉
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