Far more complicated. I have the arm of Monty preserved in alcohol (the rest is in formalin) just in case I find a student that would like to try a DNA match or DNA registry. Kat's PHD research focused on reidentifying a genus of squid (now proudly called Callimachus ). One of the complaints I have is that we can't easily obtain full official descriptions of animals. A lot of the identification requires disection and knowing what you are looking at and then researching to find a match.