The Natural History Museum plays a vital role in providing accurate identifications of reported catches of fishes around the UK. These fish locations allow us to monitor climate change and its impact on our world. Using a live link-up from the Tank Room, Museum fish curators Oliver Crimmen and James Maclaine examine the first ever British barracuda, caught off the coast of Cornwall earlier this year.
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Until 1938 whale carcasses were buried in the Museum grounds so that their flesh would decay leaving only the skeletons.