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🎉 12 HOURS REMAIN! 🎉

Only half a day left until our shop closes! And with daylight savings here the monsters will be coming out sooner rather than later! Keep your eyes peeled around every dark corner for future research specimens!

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2021-12-01

The gharial specimens we studied both showed nasal septum deviation, but to very different degrees. Comparing nasal septum thickness in gharials to other crocodylians, it was pretty clear that gharials sacrificed septum width to make room for everything else in their snouts.

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2021-11-30

Day Concornis Colouration
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Yeah sorry Alex I actually did collect two specimens that showed colour lmao, should've asked me, that's on you ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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2021-11-27

Madre de la Culebra, literally "mother of the snake" is a longhorned beetle and it is the largest species of beetle in Chile. The male measures 5–6 cm, the female is black and measures between 8–9 cm on average, although specimens exceeding 12 cm in length have also been found.

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2021-11-26

A couple of playful Tupandactylus navigans fly past some lenticular clouds. The incredibly preserved fossil of this Cretaceous pterosaur was confiscated during a police raid in Brazil in 2013, along with thousands of other specimens.

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2021-11-25

One of the most famous Cabinet of Curiosities was that of Dutch apothecary Albertus Seba, who spent decades collecting specimens. He then hired artists to make illustrations of it that were published in his book 'Locupletissimi rerum naturalium thesauri.' https://t.co/RWjkQYxevH

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2021-11-23

The Snail-eating coua (Coua delalandei) lived on the island of Nosy Boraha near Madagascar, and went extinct during the 1800s. These watercolours include both the final illustration and a colour study based on the few remaining museum specimens.

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2021-11-23

If you like Specimens, maybe you could take a look at my & collections 🤗
Thank you very much for your time🙋🏼‍♂️🙏🏻

Some pieces:

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2021-11-18

Taxidermy specimens can appear to be living, and when they are photographed, the fact that they aren't moving is hidden. Our new free by Alexandra Murphy explores that relationship between and 📷🐩
https://t.co/i76fKzBIQ0

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2021-11-08

Remember legendary naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace Wallace co-discovered evolution through natural selection during an 8-year journey through Southeast Asia, a trek that spanned over 14,000 miles and resulted in the collection of over 125,000 specimens.

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2021-11-07

Cool thing is you can actually see the beginnings of this change in juvenile specimens of lambeosaurines (like this Parasaurolophus). The nasals start out at on the top of the premaxillae, and then as the animal matures, that's when they get pushed under.

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2021-11-07

"And if you look over to your left you can see two prime specimens fighting over the right to breed--"

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2021-11-04

I'm dying to dissect something...!

🦇🎃HAPPY HALLOWEEN, MY SPECIMENS AND COLLEAGUES🎃🦇

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2021-11-01

RIP my PC couldn't handle RE2 for some reason so we got to floor 900 in Spookys instead! Thank you for coming by and supporting me screaming at everything! 8D

I hope you all have amazingly spooky halloweens! >:D (Hopefully with less specimens than I encountered) https://t.co/IbcSutw1Bw

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2021-11-01

“Lily & amaryllis belladona.” Plate 38.125, from Specimens of the plants & fruits of the island of Cuba, c. 1826, by (American, 1791-1828), born (Oct 29). via https://t.co/7FpdSvsMod

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2021-10-29

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Meet Frilled Pearl, or “Frilly” for short. A long and lanky Pearl that is very in-tune with the more unsettling depths of the ocean, drawing inspiration from the frilled shark and other deep sea wildlife specimens.

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2021-10-26

There are rare traits, and then there are the specimens of serendipity whose rare combination is generative genius (and comedy).
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2021-10-25

Right now, on sale, these fine specimens for auction on Christie's (closing in 4 days). The same auction house is also trading these creepy copy-paste ape nfts. It's weird to see bad jpegs & priceless fossils being treated as same financial commodities.

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2021-10-22

"Moving the Contents of the Museum in Glasgow," attrib. to Jemima Blackburn (1870), wth a tiger among the stuffed specimens, A marvellous array of skilfully depicted creatures (espec. the unconcerned horses!). Thanks https://t.co/pVLM7MLacq

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2021-10-17