Fire Destroys World’s Largest Collection of Dead Snakes, Scorpions and Spiders
Some people want their work to be remembered and shared with the rest of the world for centuries to come; in many cases this involves going down in a blaze of glory (so to speak). Unfortunately, sometimes that blaze is real and will consume all those years of work. A fire destroyed the world’s largest scientific collection of dead snakes, scorpions and spiders. The collection, located at the Instituto Butantan in Brazil, was almost a century-old and included nearly 80,000 snakes and several thousand scorpion and spider specimens. These specimens were a main source for research, particularly where evolution and…
