With the sudden transition to virtual learning due to COVID-19, teaching a hands on lab course while conserving the interactive relationships between the students and the lab specimens has become a hurdle for instructors around the globe. To minimize the changes from in-person to digital, we have created a virtual laboratory for our Comparative Vertebrate Anatomy course. Using Google Slides and Bitmoji instructors to create the virtual classrooms, we embedded links into images of the specimens that link to interactive 3D models from SketchFab, oVert, HHMI, MorphoSource, and YouTube. Here we present our methods in instructional format. Using our virtual laboratory, we were able to maintain the same level of learning objectives as compared to previous in-person semesters.