ANN ARBOR, MI — University of Michigan Professor Alison Davis Rabosky is not afraid to touch dead caecilians with her bare hands.
At the UM Museum of Zoology, she pulled the snake-like amphibian, from a jar and explained endless rows of preserved animal specimens.
The collection is filled with rodent bones, hare carcasses, beetles on sticks, porcupine quills and penguin skeletons, among others, like a scene from a scientific-fiction dinosaur movie…