England's 'number 2' museum.

• Position: BIOLOGY - National Poo Museum - Brief article

Great Britain has a new museum dedicated to something that isn't usually discussed in polite company. The National Poo Museum, which opened in March at the Isle of Wight Zoo in the English Channel, features 20 kinds of stool, taken from elk to lions to human babies from all over the world. It even has samples of fossilized poo, known as coprolites, dating back 140 million years. The exhibit, which will go on tour this fall, isn't as smelly as you'd imagine: The specimens are dried out and displayed in containers made of resin, a special transparent plastic that helps...