Ed Baker

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Nature Live!: The Name Game

Date: 
2010-12-04
Location: 
Attenborough Studio, Natural History Museum, London

12:30 & 14:30

Have you ever encountered Osedaz mucofloris (the bone-eating snot-flower)? Some creatures have weird and wonderful names, but how do they get them? Who decides? And what do the names mean?

Pit your wits against a panel of scientists in our special gameshow and decide who is telling the truth and who is bluffing.

Nature Live: The Name Game on the Natural History Museum website

 

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