Also called: Skeletal Preparator, Dermestid Beetle Colony Manager
Cleans and prepares animal skeletons for museums and research, often using flesh-eating beetles.
Places a specimen in a colony of dermestid beetles that eat away every bit of tissue, then whitens, numbers, and catalogs each bone.
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Approximate: anchored on Bureau of Labor Statistics data for a broader job group.
Bachelor's degree (4-year), about 4 years after high school. Bachelor's in biology helpful; on-the-job museum training.
Ways in: 4-year college, On-the-job training. Training cost: $15k – $60k.
Majors to look at: Biology, Ecology, Environmental Science.
Growing about average. Tracks BLS biological scientists.
Low risk for 10 years. Cleaning, whitening and numbering bones with beetle colonies is hands-on museum craft.
Classes: Biology, Anatomy and physiology, Art.
Official data: O*NET occupation 25-4013.
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