Cambridge zoology museum to reopen after £4.1m revamp

A cast of a diprotodon skeleton – the largest marsupial that ever lived – towers over museum visitors. Photograph: University of Cambridge / Julieta Sarmiento Photography

When Sir David Attenborough opens the University of Cambridge’s zoology museum this week, the proud curators will show him their fabulous discovery.

It’s fair to say the casual visitor might wonder why they are so excited by the scruffy frame containing a few cobwebby grey-brown wisps, discovered during a £4.1m redevelopment of the museum.