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The Ontario Science Centre has recently welcomed a few new guests Ð fully preserved human bodies. The bodies have been shaped into those of hockey players, made especially for Canada by Dr. Gunther von Hagens of BODY WORLDS. The hockey players, each being 5'9" and 6'0" tall with a combined weight of 352 lbs, are the world's first plastinate duo in which the fragile internal organs, in their preserved state and with natural colors, can be easily admired from all angles. The specimens required 3,700 hours of preparation time Ð including 2,100 hours for the positioning and fine dissection. They convey "topographic anatomy," the anatomy of spatial relations.
