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Columnea ‘Fire Dragon’. Columnea is a large genus of over 200 species from tropical America and the Caribbean and is more commonly known as the goldfish plant. Specimen residing in herbarium

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2020-05-02

John Reeves was born 1774. He was the East India Company’s Inspector of Teas in China for 19 years (1812-1831). He collected plant & animal specimens & comissioned watercolours of many species by Chinese artists. The Reeves pheasant and Reeves muntjac are named after him.

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2020-05-01

I've drooled over the Transformers Vs Terminators' Starscream a lot but let's not forget the absolute specimen of a Megatron it gave us too

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2020-05-01

A new paper by Ibrahim et al. just dropped describing a Spinosaurus tail which confirms that it had a very aquatic lifestyle! And it's the tail of the 2014 specimen!!!

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2020-04-30

An installment in my weekly fungi series! The Rosy Bonnet, a lovely pinky specimen 🎈

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2020-04-27

Capsicum specimen collected at "The Villages retirement community (A drinking community with a golfing problem)" (Florida)

[in the NYBG herbarium: https://t.co/unMqMlkMfa]

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2020-04-25

Seaweed collecting was a popular Victorian pastime, with enthusiasts including Queen Victoria and George Eliot. ‘Ocean flowers and their teachings’ (1846) contains pressed seaweed specimens and was perfect for budding phycologists!

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2020-04-23

Louise von Panhuys (1763-1844): Germanic botanical artist and landscape painter. She went to Surinam and created volumes of botanical specimens; mainly, she painted watercolours of plant specimens, with attention to scientific accuracy.

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2020-04-22

See, this specimen is quite an interesting one…

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2020-04-20

On this day in 1794, German botanist and explorer Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius was born. Martius focused most of his work on Brazil - collecting thousands of specimens from the region. https://t.co/7kluizARa8

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2020-04-18

●otice of the start of the sale of artworks.●
Five specimens are now on sale at TAGBOAT!
They look like insect specimens in a specimen box.
This is a great opportunity to add it to your collection!

https://t.co/T9rtR5dchQ

The photo is "Specimen No. 25".

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2020-04-16

Watercolour, from my book. I adored visiting London's for all the specimens, as it gives great fodder for practise.

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2020-04-16

Sweet baby Jesus. Look at this specimen. Look at this costume design! Oscar Isaac is fucking KILLING IT.

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2020-04-15

Griffith is so beautiful and it's fucking offensive. Like I hate this dude but he looks like an immaculate, otherworldly specimen . Fuck you Griffith, you marble statue, angel looking motherfucker.

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2020-04-14

Kulu-Ya-Ku is relatively low in the food chain and has to raid nests of their egg to feed. Although Kulu-Ya-Ku primarily eats eggs, it's thought that it may also feed on smaller animals, such as insects, but there haven't been any reports of any specimens eating anything else.

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2020-04-13

from the lab | generative (bio)sketches of speculative aquatic specimens generated from trained w/

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2020-04-12

Meet Takeshi, a student baseball player who's actually an alien prince raised in a human environment but was kidnapped recently when he reached a suitable mature age in order to convert him into a prime physical specimen for reproduction purposes and to take the throne soon! 1/2

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2020-04-11

"Wow! This is a very good specimen!"

Peridot will enjoy her job this day.

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2020-04-10