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Happy birthday to legendary naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace. He 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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2020-01-08

For The Natural History of the British Surface-feeding Ducks by John G. Millais.

A hunter, naturalist, artist & writer, Millais travelled extensively collecting specimens and recording the birds he observed. 🦆

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2020-01-06

I’m Ash, an & of a care-taker for a collection of over 2 million specimens. My speciality is 💀 (the vital decomposers that eat dead bodies)

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2019-12-19

The Fossil Pokemon! They work a bit differently in this region; instead of being revived from a specimen encased in stone, the fossils in Norre are revived from specimens frozen in blocks of ice, making the part Ice type!

(Part of my Fakemon Dex Project!) https://t.co/9Li7kVZ7CI

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2019-12-16

'quinologist' John Eliot Howard (1807-1883) - expert in botany and chemistry of government advisor and collector of many of specimens. https://t.co/YSdzg7LMfk

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2019-12-11

Type specimens of Australopithecus africanus/prometheus (yellow endocast) and Homo naledi (blue). Similar brain size/shape between very distinct species

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2019-12-06

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♥ Quick coloring of this gorgeous specimens ♥

♥ God Bless Hiro Mashima ♥

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2019-12-06

Two slightly different spookulent specimens to add to the family! Find them both over at my Inprnt shop https://t.co/yPWDKl17MP Plus, get 10% off until Dec 1st with code AWVJX6 !!!!

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2019-11-25

More Spooky Specimens! Here’s 4-6!

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2019-11-24

Who doesn't want to spend a among Mesozoic flora and fauna?! And even more when you have a vacuum cleaner with you!
Conservation involves taking care of our specimens, and that sometimes means cleaning their cases so dust doesn't affect the collections 🧹🦕

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2019-11-23

Crater Fossils from Brazil from 110 million years ago. These fly specimens are amazing & are part of the impressive fossil insect collection behind the scenes, which is actively being worked on & developed thanks to David Grimaldi & co-workers

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2019-11-23

Day 20 It is always where our specimens come from! Many use bioluminescence. On the underside of this Hatchet fish you can see the light organs which hide it from predators, while the eyes point up to look for prey.

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2019-11-21

The Data Portal holds a variety of collection information including images, sounds, videos research results and 3D scans. This check out the Darwin Fossil Mammals 3D scans of some of the specimens collected on the Voyage of the Beagle. https://t.co/1Zk9WWRhL9

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2019-11-18

This book is a novel by Frenchman Claude Simon, there are actual plant and specimens as the front and back cover. Thank you library 📚 at for showing me this! - dear do we have anything similar??

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2019-11-14

I really enjoy revisiting specimens and making new, better looking images out of them. Here is Labidesthes sicculus, a brook silverside. Really neat and, in my opinion, quite underappreciated. https://t.co/U6VBjNkRmT

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2019-11-13

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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2019-11-07

Select pages from Specimens of Chromatic Wood Type, Borders, Etc. (1874), a specimen book produced by the William H. Page wood type company. Chromatic types, which were made to print in two or more colours, were first produced as wood type by Edwin Allen. https://t.co/bU1QaHytmU

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2019-11-06

🐉🧪 We got some new Specimens jarred up and restocked! ⚗️🐉

https://t.co/vyh4lM2rfU

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2019-11-05

New Nature paper on insect declines. Interesting read. But rage at the part about identifying specimens (or lack of it). No taxonomists available?? I bet there were but was lack of funds to pay for this. Severally limits interpretation again as just 2 orders were properly studied

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2019-11-02

I was very fortunate to draw three Puffin specimens at this week. These beautiful birds are also known as sea parrots or clowns of the sea.

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2019-10-28