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Rosie the Ice Age Walrus

Profile view of Rosie’s skull and neck vertebrae, with the interior of the museum in the background.

Photo credit: Qualicum Beach Museum collection

While the team that unearthed Rosie found many of her bones, they didn’t find all of them.

All of the brown parts of Rosie’s assembled skeleton are actual bone; everything else is resin, sculpted using other specimens of Odobenus rosmarus and living walruses as reference.

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