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A collection of dead insects at the Houston Zoo. Zoo staff keep the insects that pass away here in a freezer for two reasons: they need to prove to the USDA that the insects they keep match their inventories, and also to wow school kids on tours.

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An elementary age boy stands in front of his grandmother’s very stuffed freezer.

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A scientist shows the deep freeze in his lab, which contains the DNA of all the frogs in their collection, a kind of frozen ark.

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A desert cottontail rabbit (Sylvilagus audubonii) near Las Vegas, NV.

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A man jumps over a snowy, frozen creek at the Sartore farm near Dunbar.

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A nutria crosses a frozen pond at Sabine NWR in Louisiana.

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