Diaphanization of Common mouse - Mus musculus
Biological preparation
The aim of diaphanization is to render the tissues transparent through a chemical process, and specific dyes are used to highlight the skeleton.
You can see the bones through the flesh!
Diaphanization of a Common mouse skeketon: Mus musculus
The aim of diaphanization is to make the skeleton transparent so that it can be observed.
The tissues are made transparent by a chemical process, and specific dyes are used to highlight the skeleton.
You can see the bones through the flesh!
This is mainly used for animals that are too small to be prepared for osteology in the conventional way, or to study ossification sequences, for example.
The jar does not contain formalin, because the specimens are fixed before they are prepared.
They are then placed in these flasks filled with pure glycerine and thymol crystals, whose function is to preserve the tissues and combat mould.
The animals are not killed to end up in these jars; they are often foetuses or stillborn animals, etc.
Bottle height: 8.5cm Diameter: 4cm
All specimens are different
Entomological box
Species: Scarab beetle Eudicella woermanni male
From Ouganda captured in 1995
Australian saltwater crocodile skull: Crocodylus porosus
Estuary crocodile
With its CITES permit
29cm
Can only be sold in the European Union- Shengen Area
Entomological box - 9x12cm
Species: Lyropteryx apollonia butterfly
Entomological box containing a beetle
Species: Heliocopris dominus
168: Hydrangea arborescens Annabelle
Real framed and calligraphed Herbarium
Scarabée - Beetle under mini globe
Species: Tmesorrhina alpestris
Various other species available
Plastic mini globe
Emu egg
EMPTY EGG
Their colours vary enormously from green or blue to black
NO BLACK COLOR at this moment
Entomological transparent frame
Species: Morpho Didius butterfly from Peru
Glass ball butterfly
Species: Sunset moth Butterflies - Chrysiridia rhipheus from Madagascar
Wolverine skull (Gulo gulo)
Cleaned, degreased and bleached
Skull length 17cm, Width 11.5cm approx.
Flight of butterflies: Heliconius family under glass dome
Jeweled flower mantis under globe
Species: Creobroter gemmatus
All insects are different
Slate pencil urchin on base - Heterocentrotus mamillatus
Origin: Indo-Pacific
There are always broken or missing picks
Madagascar sawyer ammonite - Cleoniceras fern ammonite
Cleoniceras fern ammonite
100 million year old fossil
Diaphanization of Common mouse - Mus musculus
Biological preparation
The aim of diaphanization is to render the tissues transparent through a chemical process, and specific dyes are used to highlight the skeleton.
You can see the bones through the flesh!
