Anyone else got a haunted painting? A lost expedition, cannibalism, a great bear sitting on human graves - the superstitions live on! Come to the Picture Gallery at 1pm tomorrow for a curator’s talk - if you dare! We’re open Wednesdays 10am-3pm.

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I wrote a new blog post about the horses that the Cortes expedition brought with them. The first horses on the American continent in 10,000 years! Read "Historic Horses" here: https://t.co/4tIpkD4qDn

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Michael Palin on HMS Erebus and the doomed Franklin Expedition of 1845 https://t.co/ZPxAuNl0cR via

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Read about what life was like onboard the HMS Erebus during her 4 year expedition to Here, speaks with travel documentarian and author Michael Palin about the lure of polar exploration in 1839. https://t.co/m5UddofrCa

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Life on other planets: illustrations by Wayne Barlowe for EXPEDITION (1990).

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Continuation of the expedition of Professor Gross. The world of the double star system "L 58" was mastered from the era of the Bucks, more than 200 expeditions worked on the study of new planets: for -1, Worlds-8, Ola-5, Karti -12, Ti-9

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DEJAH THORIS GARDENS OF MARS TPB - In Stores Right About...Now!

Obsessed with finding the legendary Gardens of Mars, Dejah recruits her own expedition team, but the Princess learns just how dangerous Barsoom really is.

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DEJAH THORIS GARDENS OF MARS TPB - In Stores Right About...Now!

Obsessed with finding the legendary Gardens of Mars, Dejah recruits her own expedition team, but the Princess learns just how dangerous Barsoom really is.

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DEJAH THORIS GARDENS OF MARS TPB - In Stores Right About...Now!

Obsessed with finding the legendary Gardens of Mars, Dejah recruits her own expedition team, but the Princess learns just how dangerous Barsoom really is.

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DEJAH THORIS GARDENS OF MARS TPB - In Stores Tomorrow

Obsessed with finding the legendary Gardens of Mars, Dejah recruits her own expedition team, but the Princess learns the hard way just how dangerous Barsoom really is.

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Through J.D. Hooker, botanist William Henry Harvey received algal collections from expeditions to the Pacific and southern hemisphere, which he described and illustrated in "Nereis Australis" (1847-49), in via : https://t.co/NvxIHf9Gmt

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An Expedition in Korea (1866) - Henri Zuber - Le Tour du monde illustré, 1873

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polar expedition crew for character design class

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to John Gould who was born in 1804. An eminent ornithologist, who worked here at ZSL as Curator of Birds. Gould described the birds Darwin brought back from his expedition aboard HMS Beagle, so we decided to share the famous 'Darwin's finches'!

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Half of the painting I did for the Arthur C Clarke novel “Expedition to Earth”... available as a giclée print. See https://t.co/bIIMpUD60v

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In 1937 a cryptozoological expedition to Kowtow, home to a species of monstrous prehistoric water buffalo (bubalus titanicus), suffered embarrassment & death after inadvertently building an observation post on a huge cowpat full of gigantic parasitic worms, which devoured them.

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18C French botanist Jeanne Baret was first woman to circumnavigate the globe, posing as a man on Bougainville’s expedition (1766-69), by enlisting as a valet/assistant to the ship’s naturalist Philibert Commerçon, with whom she had a previous long-term relationship

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