Totally stuffed: Cern's electrocuted weasel to go on display
by Ian Sample Science editor from on (#2AERF)
Stone marten, which met its fate at the Large Hadron Collider, to become part of Rotterdam museum's exhibition on ill-fated human-animal interactions
The singed fur and charred feet are testament to the weasel's last stand: an encounter with the world's most powerful machine that was never going to end well.
Now an exhibit at the Rotterdam Natural History Museum, the stone marten met its fate when it hopped over a substation fence at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) near Geneva and was instantly electrocuted by an 18,000 volt transformer.