Female panda is turned into plastic for museum display

The public can expect to see more exhibitions of preserved giant pandas now that the world's first specimens have been converted into plastic and put on display at the Mystery of Life Museum in Chengdu, Sichuan province.

The exhibition, which opened last week, is free until the end of June.

The plastinated muscles, internal organs, skin and skeleton of Xin Ni'er - a female panda that died in 2016 - can last up to 1,000 years, said Wu Jun, curator of the museum.