Corals and other Cnidarians
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Most of the corals in the exposition are listed in Annex II of the CITES Convention and were confiscated by the Customs of the Republic of Lithuania. Others are from the old VU collections.
Mollusca
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J. G. A. Forster participated in the British captain J. Cook’s second voyage from 1772 to 1775 and collected some shells near Australia. Other shells were donated by the Lithuanian hetman M. Ogiński and by famous people such as J. Wichert, K. Gorski, E. Gimbutienė, and others.
Spiders and Insects
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The European diadem spider and various tarantulas donated by E. Kazlauskas are on display, while the museum also holds a variety of local spiders. The abundant collections of spiders, butterflies and moths, beetles, caddis flies, true flies, sawflies, wasps, ants, bees, greenflies and other insects have been built up since the 18th century by VU scientists: B. Ogijewicz, K. Petrusiewicz, S. Podėnas, J. Prüffer, M. Racięcka, R. Rakauskas, V. Rėlys and many others.
The insect exposition contains 250 species of exotic butterflies and beetles, donated by A. M. Račkus and supplemented by B. Houwalt, V. Seichert, R. Kazlauskas. The visitors have a chance to behold domesticated silk moths and the largest moths in the world, Thysania agrippina and Attacus atlas; the longest beetle in America, Dynastes hercules; and the most enormous beetle in Europe, the Stag Beetle (Lucanus cervus).
Insects in Amber
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Since 1997, the museum has had unique pieces of Baltic amber with Holotypes of trapped flies from the Holocene. Professor S. Podėnas was the founder of the collection.
Fossils
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This collection is small but interesting: devil's bullets, trilobites, parts of mammoth skeletons, and more. VU researcher L.H. Bojanus proved that not only bison but also aurochs lived in Europe. These and other fossils can be seen in the VU Museum of Zoology.
Other Invertebrates
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Other Invertebrates cause fear (parasitic worms, centipedes, scorpions) or wonder (barnacles, lobsters, and crayfish), interest (sea stars and urchins, sand dollars and sea cucumbers), or surprise (moss animals, etc.). Come find out what kind of feeling you get upon witnessing these creatures.