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What a beautiful fossil. New armoured ankylosaur Zuul, destroyer of shins!

Check out the video of this specimens discovery, feat awesome palaeontologists & . https://t.co/q8kod6zwf0

Epic art by the !

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2018-12-22

German naturalist Eduard Rüppell embarked on an expedition to northern Africa in the 1820s. The specimens collected were used to produce "Atlas zu der Reise im nordlichen Afrika" (1826-28). Explore it in via ➡️ https://t.co/6KNfuqFYbs

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2018-12-19

Psygnosis always had cool box art. Check out these fine 80s specimens by Roger Dean that had me buying those games

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2018-12-17

All this talk of big cows demands perspective! Certainly the body size is big (& there are some huge specimens), but please, it pales in horn size to the which is the largest extant horned animal on Earth! Just goes to show that the Watusi is the real Bos

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2018-11-28

Jenny argues the enjoyment people get out of taxidermy and other collections isn’t just limited to visitors — can get a real kick out of working with these specimens too! Tune in here: https://t.co/4f112UKsDK

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2018-11-26

We talk about the ‘ick factor’ of fluid specimens, visitor enjoyment of (and reactions to) collections, and how natural history has become kind of sexy again. Curious? Tune in here: https://t.co/4f112UsRMc

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2018-11-19

Mineralogy
Dr. Steven Chamberlain donated a collection of specimens from the Balmat Mining District in St. Lawrence County, NY. The NYSM now has the most complete & significant Balmat mineral collection that can be used for exhibitions, research, & education.

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2018-11-14

The Harvard Icones features 249 watercolor figures of specimens collected & painted by Lewis David von Schweinitz, the Father of North American Mycology. Explore the history of this sketchbook, now in via Botany Libraries ➡️ https://t.co/EfxV9tnJUQ

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2018-11-02

I’m gonna give the challenge a crack, credit to . Swipe to see the teaching lab museum collection - glass display cases, animals in ethanol, boxes and boxes of pinned insects, and some specimens in storage out the back.

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2018-11-01

🦑The really great shock came when we undid one tarpaulin. It seems that others as well as Lake had been interested in collecting typical specimens; for there were two here, perfectly preserved. They were the bodies of young Gedney & the missing dog🎨Crowsrock🦑#Lovecraft

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2018-10-22

This Jack the Giant Killer themed writing blank was filled in by one John Pierce Meade on the 31st of December, 1810. Blanks of this sort were given as presents to children to fill in with handwriting specimens. https://t.co/tiJN0Ixtqd

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2018-10-16

inktober inspired by specimens from the "ebayfriends" tumblr https://t.co/oqtL2rrxz7

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2018-10-14

Work in progress with and . This is a figure for a manuscript on historical teleosaurid specimens from Germany and England which is about ready for submission.

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2018-10-08

189/365— The west mines are known for flawless rock candy specimens. It occurs to me that I probably need to name this magical world but nothing comes to mind...I’ll think about it 😂 •
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2018-10-07

According to the preface of John Hill's "Exotic Botany", dried specimens were reconstituted for illustration by macerating them in warm water. Explore the 2nd ed. (1772) in for via Botany Libraries: https://t.co/1IiNCqBOzY

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2018-08-24

The moral of the story is, keep practicing kiddos, and one day your OCs will blossom into the beautiful specimens they were meant to be.
The glo up is real.
Aunty Lola believes in you all, get art buff 🎨💪✨

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2018-08-04

in 1908, a pickaxe struck the side of a remarkable skull. It was the discovery of the Neanderthal known as the Old Man from La Chapelle, one of the most important specimens in the history of paleoanthropology.

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2018-08-03

Jean Baptiste Vérany's "Mollusques méditeranéens: Céphalopodes" (1851) describes specimens fished from the Mediterranean Sea and features chromolithographed plates depicting octopuses, squids, and cuttlefishes. In via : https://t.co/LNTMPk4x1c

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2018-06-20

Both fossil specimens of Prejanopterus show a snout curved to the left. If this is not distortion of the fossil, Prejanopterus is surely one of the weirdest https://t.co/OJgmPKFOga

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2018-04-19

I'm imagining the decay of museum specimens as eroding and crumbling away due to pesky infestations of crystal growth. Also, a fun experiment!

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2018-03-29