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We are proud to announce that XenoCat is gearing up for Denfur 2021!

Come by and meet our crew and specimens, we would love to say hello and introduce ourselves!

Denfur is our home con, and it’s been a while but we are excited to be back and see all your lovely faces!

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2021-07-14

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2021-06-28

We also found pretty interesting and beautiful plant specimens, they seem to accomplish certain functions in this biome, and that's worth of a close investigation

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2021-06-26

Me, saying how lovely bee flies are 😉, featuring the standard image of me gazing adoringly at flies....

From the latest publication which features specimens, staff & a whole lot more about Nature ( even shows you how to build a moth trap...)

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2021-06-18

Mandrake Root from Leonhart Fuchs’ 1543 “Neu Kreuterbuch”, a king of 16th C botanicals. Fuchs depicted plants as specimens, especially evident with the mandrake, depicted as an actual root rather than a magical emblem of superstition. It’s also 500 years old, and gorgeous

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2021-06-15

Gorgosaurus was a tyrannosaurid theropod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of North America. It is known from dozens of specimens, making it the best-represented tyrannosaur.

https://t.co/slgBc1rH8e

Illustration by Sergey Meleshin

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2021-06-04

Cool thread on the Majungasaurus from Madagascar. Known from several good specimens, its ornamented skull caused some fragments to be mistaken for a pachycephalosaur.
L by R by https://t.co/L4DWxUngW8

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2021-05-29

Robert "Micrographia" (1665) was the first work to depict microscopic specimens, and includes his famous illustration of a flea. Hooke praised the "beauty" of this creature, with its "suit of sable Armour" and "sharp pinns...like Porcupine’s Quills." 🦔🔬 ⁣#ArchivesBugs

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2021-05-08

Botanical illustration and the park: Margaret Rebecca Dickinson Collection of Watercolors - a talented Victorian artist who assembled a collection of over 1,000 British plant specimens, now available on Jstor ...... https://t.co/nwOsOQ7how

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2021-03-07

Something cute, fluffy and still living for a change. Paucidentomys, the earthworm-eating, nearly toothless rat from Sulawesi, and Cuscomys, the mysterious chinchilla rat of Machu Picchu. Both known from very few specimens, either very rare, very elusive, or both.

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2021-01-31

Anyone want to make my roadie an updated ref?!? I want him to look more like a real opossum! He also have new glasses and he needs his beanie he wears also.
I have some characters, closed species, and oddities (skulls, wet specimens, witchy things, I would trade! For it)

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2021-01-03

Maria Sibylla Merian began collecting and studying insects at age 13. Working from live specimens, she depicted the stages of caterpillar metamorphosis. Her illustrations are held by among others https://t.co/g8AvhuovDG

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2020-12-08

My serotonin

My holy grail

Beautiful specimens, yes

I love them with all my heart

And so should you!!

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2020-11-18

Test # 241
The specimen showed a huge weight gain when ingesting the serum, a different reaction compared to the other specimens, more tests will be needed

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2020-11-12

Berlin-based artist Sofia Crespo describes her work as the “natural history book that never was.” Her watercolors seem like illustrations that at first glance, resemble 18th Century exotic book of fish specimens, but much more colorful and, I add, twisted.

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2020-10-01

300 years ago, a pioneering Dutch natural history encyclopedia (https://t.co/EbCwQkGasb) included among its fish specimens, in total seriousness, this astonishing illustration of a mermaid. Now a face mask (because why not), benefitting Nature Conservancy: https://t.co/qU0DmcbM3G

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2020-09-09

New Upper Cambrian and Lower Ordovician conodont biostratigraphy and revised lithostratigraphy, Boothia Peninsula, Nunavut 👀 over 640 conodont specimens, with 35 species = 16 genera + a new species, Rossodus? boothiaensis sp. nov.
https://t.co/jQwDodzqJU

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2020-08-11

Unfortunately, the storage box containing the rest of specimens of the original series was destroyed by Cribb’s landlady in revenge for rent arrears.

Since then, nobody else has been able to collect any further specimens, and the moth has not been seen alive.

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2020-06-16

In some specimens, you’re also able to see the transition between the annulations of the head and frontal appendage and the smooth cuticle of the trunk.

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2020-05-15