Volcanoes are unpredictable, violently destructive and potentially lethal, yet humans continue to live, work and play in their shadows and life itself might not exist without them. Take a closer look at craters, geysers and lava lakes with our mineralogist Frances Wall.
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The Museum's smallest members of staff are our flesh-eating beetles, Dermestes maculates, who strip carcasses to the bone.