Bear-whales are hidden on the 1860-era Victorian neo-Gothic walls of the Oxford University Museum of Natural History. “Yeah I just said bear whales…” “These tucked-away curious carvings gently mock Darwin‘s just-published theory of evolution [On the Origin of Species, published in 1859]. How could a bear evolve into a whale?...
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