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  • Museum Finds Real Human Skull In 150-Year-Old Taxidermy Display

    Museum Finds Real Human Skull In 150-Year-Old Taxidermy Display

    For more than a century, the taxidermy diorama “Arab Courier Attacked by Lions” has stood in Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Museum of Natural History. Depicting a man on camelback fending off Barbary lions, the bizarre display has intrigued — and repulsed — generations of visitors. Throughout all those years, however, the piece managed to keep a disturbing…