The Mysterious Life Museum, located in Lushunkou District, Dalian in Liaoning Province, is a comprehensive museum including collection, scientific research and exhibition of plastinated specimen of human body, vertebrate and marine animal. A group of scientists and staff members used the world leading techniques here to make the vivid and incisive specimen, such as the skeletons, muscles, nerve and blood vessels. Some of the specimen may cost months or even years to finish. Therefore, the museum offers people an ideal place to discover mysteries under the skin and the miracle and magnificence of life evolution. (Xinhua/Li Yuze) 

A staff member checks the specimen at the Mysterious Life Museum, Oct. 20, 2011. 

 A staff member works on the specimen of a crocodile at the Mysterious Life Museum, Oct. 19, 2011. 

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 Staff members carry the finished specimen at the Mysterious Life Museum, Oct. 10, 2011. 

 A staff member checks the lighting for a specimen at the Mysterious Life Museum, Oct. 20, 2011. 

 A commentator wipes the dust away from the specimen at the Mysterious Life Museum, Oct. 20, 2011. 

A visitor looks at the specimen showing the blood vessels of human body at the Mysterious Life Museum.

The specimen of a goat is seen under processing at the Mysterious Life Museum, Oct. 20, 2011. 

The photo taken on Oct. 20, 2011 shows consumption of knives for making the specimen of a shark at the Mysterious Life Museum.

A staff member works on the specimen of a human body at the Mysterious Life Museum, Oct. 10, 2011.