#American Museum of Natural History

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This spectacular Stegosaurus…

🦴 measures 11.5 ft (3.5 m) tall and 27 ft (8.2 m) long. 🦴 is mounted in a defensive pose, with its spiked tail raised in the air. 🦴 lived 150 million years ago in what’s now the western U.S.

Thought to be the largest and one of the most complete Stegosaurus specimens ever uncovered, Apex is now on view in the Museum’s Kenneth C. Griffin Exploration Atrium. This exhibit is included with any admission.

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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:

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

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She makes me weak in the knees 🫠🫠

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Scarlett Johansson attends 2024 American Museum Of Natural History Gala

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

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17-year cicada

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

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I saw something I’ve been wanting to see my whole life. This dodo. Ever since I saw the Wild Kratts there, I’ve needed to go. And today, I finally went. As soon as I entered the museum, I dragged my dad straight there. I tried to hold back my tears, but I failed. I will never forget this

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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

[amnhnyc]

It’s Fossil Friday! Let’s swim back in time about 85 million years to the Late Cretaceous to meet Xiphactinus, a gigantic predatory fish. This species could reach lengths of 17 ft (5.2 m) and was capable of swallowing a 6-ft- (2-m-) long fish whole! The Museum’s Xiphactinus fossils come from Logan County, Kansas, which is home to 70-ft- (21.3-m-) tall sedimentary formations. Though that might not sound like an ideal home for an ocean-dweller, the entire area was covered by a vast inland sea during the Cretaceous. See Xiphactinus in the Museum’s Hall of Vertebrate Origins!

Photo: Image no. ptc-6634 © AMNH  (taken 1996)

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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

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Dimetrodon fossil.

American Museum of Natural History.

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