#American Museum of Natural History

[amnhnyc]

It’s a stupendous Fossil Friday! Let’s celebrate with Stupendemys geographicus, the “stupendous turtle.” This reptile lived during the Late Miocene some 5 million years ago, and it’s one of the largest turtles to have ever existed. Scientists think this giant’s carapace could grow up to 7.9 ft (2.4 m) long and that it could weigh up to 2,524 lbs (1,145 kg). Stupendemys geographicus is a pleurodire, or side-necked turtle, closely related to the living Podocnemis genus. No skull of Stupendemys has ever been found. The sculpted skull used in this exhibit is based on that of another very large pleurodire thought to be related to Stupendemys. See it up close in the Hall of Vertebrate Origins! Plan your visit.

Photo: © AMNH

[arthistoryanimalia]

For #Caturday:

Ceramic bottle modeled in the form of a standing feline, decorated with resist-painted motif. Gallinazo style (aka Virú culture), NW Peru, Early Intermediate Period, c. 200 BCE - 600 CE. Spotted at the American Museum of Natural History NYC.

PS: this vessel may depict the Peruvian subspecies of Pampas Cat aka Northern Colocolo (Leopardus colocola garleppi). The Andean Mountain Cat (Leopardus jacobita) is also often suggested, but their range is more southern and higher elevation than where the Virú were? Also note the stripier legs on the Colocolo similar to the ceramic:

[nevver]

Say hello to my little friend, Ray de Lucia (foto Alex J. Rota)

[waltermis]

She makes me weak in the knees 🫠🫠

[lovelyy-moonlight]

[ilikeit-art]

A giant amethyst geode looks like a portal to the universe.

The New Hall of Gems and Minerals at the American Museum of Natural History.

[harveyguillensource]

Harvey admiring some bears at the American Museum of Natural History in NYC.

[sitting-on-me-bum]

17-year cicada

Image © Levon Biss, courtesy of the American Museum of Natural History

[sreegs]

if you got a pic of this guy in the Natural History Museum in NYC please reblog with an addition.

I know he's on google images i just keep getting other people who got a pic of this guy responding with their own and its funny

Thank you have a good day

[colonellickburger]

Hiroshi Sugimoto. Polar Bear, 1976

[amnhnyc]

How did you celebrate Earth Month? Thanks to everyone who joined us at EarthFest! 🌎🌍🌏

[arthistoryanimalia]

For #UnsolicitedDuckPicDay, check out this #duck on display at the American Museum of Natural History:

“Ceramic whistling bottle molded and painted to represent a muscovy duck, a South American domesticate.”

�� Muscovy duck (Cairina moschata)

“Sican style, Peru” - Sican aka Lambayeque culture, c. 750-1375 CE

[fitsofgloom]

A curious and very ironic case of immortality for a gorilla that died over a century ago. This mountain gorilla was sadly killed sometime between 1905 and 1909 when the famed taxidermist Carl Ethan Akeley had traveled to Africa to obtain museum specimens. By 1927, the stuffed and mounted creature was featured in a diorama in New York's American Museum of Natural History. It's still on display to this day. During the '60s, this image began turning up as a cheap scare gimmick -- typically depicting the sexual menacing of a human female and battling a square-jawed male opponent -- in movie posters and comic books both stateside, in Europe, and in South America. Cut to some eighty years after becoming a scientific artifact -- and casualty of the Big Game Hunter/Men of Daring era -- and this image is now ubiquitous as various postcards and souvenirs available in any number of Times Square tourist traps. Fittingly, it's now conflated with the legend of another great ape laid low by a cruel human society.

[olemisekunst]

Not a lot of time for museum visits in New York, but we managed to squeeze a couple in. Did a quick crash course of American Museum of Natural History - that place is huge! I'd never seen dinosaur bones irl before, and the cut of the giant sequoia was fucking insane. 🦖🗿

[waltermis]

[lovelyy-moonlight]