Just a reminder to keep a few pennies aside for these lush specimens this weekend at ! £10 each, don't you know.

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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. https://t.co/PZpEKfSiqe

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The first images Europeans saw of Birds of Paradise were drawings from dead specimens. The legs had been cut off so for years people thought they were legless and were perpetually in flight.

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Photos don't do it any justice -- exploring this Mesozoic Gallery room with fossil specimens glowing underfoot was absolutely magical! ☄️

At the University of Nebraska State Museum of Natural History in Lincoln, NE.

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Pterosaur feathers
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Pterosaurs are known to have been covered in hair-like pycnofibers. Two specimens of anurognathids show that some pycnofibers were brush- or tuft-shaped and probably share an evolutionary origin with feathers.

https://t.co/t8rAmwEbQq

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I’m jumping on the right about… now. I’m Daniel. I’m a production artist at a Boston-ish game studio, but I also like to illustrate weird museum specimens. Also blobfish. https://t.co/mWTfowhxQL

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they had a live butterfly exhibit and there were some beautiful specimens

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Summertime is fascinating! I had no idea there were so many organic specimens with big eyes like mine! 💖

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The Mesmerizing Microscopy of Trees: Otherworldly Images Revealing the Cellular Structure of Wood Specimens: https://t.co/816Jl1ndcW 🌲🌳🔬

The slides, photographed by 's Stanley Yankowski, are from the 4,637 specimens amassed by Archie F. Wilson (1903–1960).

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Digitisation of a botanical treasure trove 🌱
The Herbaria, which began here at the Oxford Botanic Garden, is an internationally important collection of more than a million pressed plant specimens from every corner of the globe. Read more: https://t.co/tDzHoXLbVh

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On the table today, so hard to resist a 'Gleanings among the British Ferns; illustrated by dried specimens' / Jane M. Patison (London: William Pamplin, 1858).

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Pics of specimens I took at work:) Grape Agate, Barite, Chalcedony and Lepidolite😁

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The term "printer's devil" describes a person, often a boy, who is not quite yet an apprentice in a printing establishment, and is given tasks including mixing ink and gathering type. (1/7)

(This devil with a composing stick is from the 1900 ATF Desk Book of Type Specimens.)

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Preview of a page of the upcoming At the mountains of madness :
"Lake was sending more messages, and told of the completely successful transportation of the fourteen great specimens to the camp."

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days 29 & 30 are Melanotaenia boesemani (boesemani rainbowfish) and Iriatherina werneri (threadfin rainbowfish)! I took some liberties with the colors but it's still possible to find specimens with coloration similar to this! They are boyfriends. 🌈🐟🧜‍♂️💖🧜‍♂️🐟🌈

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Macro lens proving its worth for tiny dino bits. Some close-ups on the teeth of two Lesothosaurus specimens . These cute little gnashers would have been slicing up plants (and maybe small prey) some 200 million years ago in what’s now Lesotho

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の漫画にサーヴァントランサー メアリー・アニングが登場したので、大英自然史博物館展のアニングに関する化石標本。
Fossil specimens discovered by Mary Anning.

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Don't pick random space specimens up

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My character Sasha Flux takin a breather in between collecting plant specimens 🌱🌿🌾

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I wanna draaaAAWW
but i can't, and i have my final exams in two weeks ;'( </3

idk what to post to just "enjoy" the first badge that I did for my closed species, it's a badge that will be given to the specimens that features a trait for the first time

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