The items on loan included things such as a taxidermy pelican, a penguin skeleton, tiny conjoined-twin teddy bears made from belly button lint and a 40-pound meteorite that fell in Argentina 4,000 ...

The bear's outline was stamped out right next to a footbridge crossing the canal in southwest Montreal — a prime location for picture-taking. But how did its mysterious makers do the belly button?

The bear was wide — at about 12 feet — making the jump from the bear's outline to its belly button almost impossible.