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day 21 - extinct
Najin and Fatu, the very last known specimens of the functionally extinct northern white rhinoceros
🦏🦏

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2019-10-22

These cute 'lil herbarium specimens are your reminder to VOTE today! Canadians: find your polling station here: https://t.co/C4PZ36Tn17



📷: plant specimens from the Steere Herbarium via
https://t.co/zkNmQzi2cW

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2019-10-21

These cute 'lil herbarium specimens are your reminder to VOTE on Monday! No excuses.



📷: plant specimens from the Steere Herbarium via https://t.co/zkNmQzi2cW

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2019-10-19

The holotypes of Tyrannosaurus and Spinosaurus scaled up with their properly size, behind them the biggest specimens known of both species

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2019-10-15

Not furry art, but heres some pixel art I did of my favorite specimens in my mineral collection :-) These are really fun and im definitely making more in between comms!

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2019-10-07

Our prompt for day 6 is SPECIMEN! Show us your best study skins, formalin fixed specimens, skulls, etc.

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2019-10-06

All Today's piece, future paleontologists found the first skull of a horse which had part of the jaw damaged and exposing the dental roots, they assumed that this was the natural condition and reconstuted it with the roots exposed, after finding better specimens they rectified

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2019-10-06

Today's focus is the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles, one of the richest fossil sites in the entire world. More than 3.5m specimens from over 600 species have been found here! 😮 So, why did so many animals meet their demise at & what can we learn from them?

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2019-10-04

Some work I did for the National Park Service/Geosciences Institute, fossil studies of some specimens found at the Rampant Cave-Grand Canyon.

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2019-09-26

Leaked Area 51 specimens adopts!

Baja Blast off and Invader Them!! Each of them are only 30 dollars! but if you buy them both it'll only be 50!!

Retweets are appreciated!

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2019-09-21

Had an excellent day visiting to see the beautiful work of Robert Logan - a little known Scottish entomologist. Viewing his original paintings and other specimens has been so useful for my research. Thank you to wonderful for helping! 🦋🐛

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2019-09-19

Very cool to see National Hispanic Heritage Month kicked off yesterday with this celebrating Ynés Mexía – one of the most significant collectors of botanical specimens in history!

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2019-09-16

For those who wondered about the tortoise piece yesterday: I finally found a paper that gives some information on this matter. The remains speak for a roughly max. 140 cm long shell, but of course there could have been larger specimens ;)

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2019-09-15

More evolutionary insights from the a new species of Mollisonia described by Aria and curator J-B. Caron. I remember seeing some of these specimens before they'd been prepared, absolutely unreal levels of appendage details revealed!

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2019-09-11

Fantastic find with in the hidden drawers of . Calosoma (Callisthenes) fabulosum (obviously!) a giant brachypterous species from rugged mountains of Afghanistan ca. 3000m high known from a handful of specimens. Here from Badghis Prov.

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2019-09-12

We have reached 5000 followers on twitter! Thanks for following over the last 4 yrs so we can share stories about digitisation with you. To mark the occasion we thought we would share how long it take us to digitise our audience if they were different types of specimens…

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2019-09-09

"A history of the fishes of the British Islands" (1862-65) by Jonathan Couch was the 1st widely-available book on British fish featuring color plates, which were based on recently-caught specimens. In via & : https://t.co/nF7DUrB7f0

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2019-09-07

Letters of the alphabet, placed in a bowl and spilled out onto the floor, will tell one's future based on the letters that land face up. 📷: plant specimens from the Steere Herbarium via : https://t.co/zkNmQzi2cW

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2019-09-06

More Twitter bird feathers.
Specimens from the Twittophorus notata species

Mostly me mucking about with feather shapes.

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2019-09-03

Feather specimens from the common species of Twitter bird 🐦

Mostly a silly sketchbook idea that becomes a good excuse to play around with shapes, proportions, and colours.

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2019-09-02