#American Museum of Natural History

[fredpheiffer]

Ornate.

Black-and-gold sapsucking slug (Cyerce nigricans).

This sea slug secretes an unappetizing mucus to dissuade predators. When threatened, it can drop its colorful cerata, or leaf-like outgrowths, to create a distraction. This species is found in the western Indian and Pacific Oceans, where it dwells on coral or rocky reefs and snacks on algae.

Photo: profmollusc, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, iNaturalist

credit: American Museum of Natural History

[amnhnyc]

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.

[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 🫠🫠

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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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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

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[amnhnyc]

Here’s a festive Throwback Thursday photo from 1969! On this Thanksgiving, the world-famous parade passed the Museum’s 77th Street turret with a very special float: a sauropod dinosaur. This inflatable Apatosaurus measured an impressive 60 ft (18.3 m) long! The giant green dinosaur featured big eyes, a wide grin, and a 20-ft (6-m) tail. The original Apatosaurus balloon made its first parade debut in 1963 and was retired from service in 1976.

Photo: Image no. 62158_21a, © AMNH Library

[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

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Dimetrodon fossil.

American Museum of Natural History.

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Hiroshi Sugimoto. Polar Bear, 1976

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