#American Museum of Natural History
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amnhnyc · 3 days ago
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It's Trilobite Tuesday! Pictured is a 4-in- (10.2-cm-) long Olenellus from a Lower Cambrian formation in Nevada. Both the rock and the trilobite are preserved entirely in heavy, hard-to-prepare iron—resulting in this specimen’s distinct hematite-generated color and textured appearance.
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arthistoryanimalia · 2 years ago
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For #Caturday:
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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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nevver · 5 months ago
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Say hello to my little friend, Ray de Lucia (foto Alex J. Rota)
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waltermis · 1 year ago
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She makes me weak in the knees 🫠🫠
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lovelyy-moonlight · 1 year ago
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ilikeit-art · 2 years ago
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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.
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harveyguillensource · 11 months ago
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Harvey admiring some bears at the American Museum of Natural History in NYC.
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sitting-on-me-bum · 2 years ago
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17-year cicada
Image © Levon Biss, courtesy of the American Museum of Natural History
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sreegs · 10 months ago
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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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colonellickburger · 4 months ago
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Hiroshi Sugimoto. Polar Bear, 1976
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amnhnyc · 7 days ago
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Don’t mess with this fish! For Fossil Friday, let’s meet Dunkleosteus terrelli. It lived some 360 million years ago during the Devonian. Scientists think it was one of the first large jawed vertebrates in the ocean and an aggressive predator. The razor-sharp edges of bones in its jaws served as cutters, and as they rubbed against each other, the opposing jaw blades acted like self-sharpening shears. These bones continued to grow as they were worn down by use.
This specimen, on display in the Museum’s Hall of Vertebrate Origins, was found in Ohio. Spot Dunkleosteus and other prehistoric animals at the Museum! Plan your visit.
Photo: Image no. ptc-5861 © AMNH Library
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arthistoryanimalia · 11 months ago
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For #UnsolicitedDuckPicDay, check out this #duck on display at the American Museum of Natural History:
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“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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fitsofgloom · 3 months ago
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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.
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olemisekunst · 1 month ago
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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. 🦖🗿
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waltermis · 1 year ago
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lovelyy-moonlight · 1 year ago
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