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Fact check: Photos show fossilized giant sloth bones, not giant human remains
A Facebook post features several pictures of large bones arranged in a way that resembles a human skeleton ... the bones in the post are the museum's giant ground sloth.
CNN2y
Skeleton of man who dreaded becoming a museum exhibit will finally be removed from display
A British museum is to remove its most famous exhibit from display – the skeleton of an 18th-century man popularly known as the “Irish Giant ... the display of human remains and the ...
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A museum’s historic human remains are now the center of an ethics clash
Since 1863, the museum has collected and displayed historical medical implements, anatomical models, and human skeletons and ... The Kentucky Giant was sketchily acquired in 1877, on the condition ...
Museums and auction houses should not hold human remains, UK lawmakers say
Lawmakers and campaigners in the United Kingdom are pushing for an end to the display of human ... Museum stopped exhibiting ...
Smithsonian Magazine2y
Why a London Museum Is Removing the Skeleton of an ‘Irish Giant’ From View
A few years later, Hunter displayed Byrne’s skeleton at his London home-turned-museum as part of an exhibit on the normal and abnormal growth of human bones. Elizabeth II views the skeleton of ...