The Museum of Osteology was created in 2010.

Toucans are birds and are, therefore, vertebrates.

A toucan, like all birds, is a vertebrate. That means that along with a skeleton consisting of many other bones, the bird has a backbone.

Within the Animal Kingdom there are many phyla, or categories of animals. One such category is chordata. All chordates have, at some time in their development, a notochord. For some animals this notocord later develops into a spinal column

Vertebrates are members of the subphylum vertebrata: chordates with backbones or spinal columns.

Vertebrate zoology is the study of non-human vertebrates.

Leonard Blomefield has written:

'A manual of British vertebrate animals' -- subject(s): Accessible book, Zoology, Vertebrates