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The 'Perfect' Specimen

Finding this alive is like finding a plesiosaur in your bathtub

April 28, 2026·44 min
Episode Description from the Publisher

What is the real Megalodon, what have flies ever done for us and what can't help spreading diseases, aside from toddlers? Join us for another episode of The 'Perfect' Specimen, this week Josh and Natalie are joined by curator Dr Katie Collins with three specimens all relating to the word 'Misunderstood'. Katie also shares their 'perfect' specimen. Does the perfect museum specimen exist? What's the squishiest? The most exuberant? Or even the most noxious? Each episode, our hosts take their pick from 80 million specimens at the Natural History Museum to find the 'perfect' specimen. Their only prompt? A single word. #NaturalHistoryMuseum #Podcast #Perfect   ----------------    YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/NaturalHistoryMuseumLondon   Website: http://www.nhm.ac.uk   Instagram: http://instagram.com/natural_history_museum   TikTok: <a class= "Hyperlink SCXW257213945 BCX0" href= "https://www.tiktok.com/@its_nhm" target="_blank" rel= "noreferrer noope

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