Flesh Eating Beetles at the Field Museum in Chicago
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The amazing Field Museum in Chicago uses flesh eating beetles to remove tissue from carcasses that it receives, which is a much less destructive and natural process than another traditional method: boiling the carcass.

Check out a super-interesting "dispatch" on the Field Museum website on the subject: http://fm4.fieldmuseum.org/expedition/1007/dispatches.jsp?ID=96

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