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Birthday gift for @cheechero !Original pattern by ParvumAutomaton on Etsy #crossstitch #bird #bluejay

#crossstitch #bluejay #bird

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Pack the mandible and cranium separately with cotton/fiberfill so that they fit snugly in a sturdy box. You can then pad the box further with your clothes in your suitcase (preferably not in a duffle bag).

Hi, can I ask a question? Do you know much about animal skulls? My family got me a mink and fox skull as a present for last christmas, and I'm now moving via plane. Do you know a safe way to transport them? ;o; Thank you in advance for your time!

I’m sorry, I don’t!

Maybe @ofwordsandwaltzes, @zooophagous, or @naturepunk have some ideas?

Good luck with the move!

#skull #question #still alive #just busy with life and not feeling motivated to post

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Obligatory meeting-of-tumblr-friends-in-real-life photo with @thesmileoctopus!!!

#thesmileoctopus #tumblr meetup #yaaaasssss

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THIS IS AMAZING.

I FOUND MY FAVORITE VIDEO FROM BIOLOGY CLASS IN HIGH SCHOOL

#video #Gregor Mendel #Punnett squares #I return to tumblr briefly to bring you this message

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To make my gifs, I exported the video from VG Studio Max and/or Amira/Avizo and then run it through ezgif.com/video-to-gif or something similar.

Calling all morphologists…is there a particular software you use to animate or gif the videos produced by a micro-CT scan? Asking for a friend who has a video of a micro-CT scan and I think gif-ing or looping it somehow will be effective for a powerpoint presentation she’s giving.

@markscherz perhaps you might know?

#Micro-CT #gif

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HOLY MOLA MOLA I NEED TO MAKE THIS

Hammerheads!! [o ww o]

All of these cute little sharks are available in the shop in stock right now. Or order one in colors of your choosing right here.

Also renewed some expired listings and will have something new next week. 

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#crochet #amigurumi #shark #adorable

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8/5/2014 - Ornithology Division Just updating the database with all of our swallows. Here are some Bank Swallows (Raparia raparia) in order of age.

#bird #Bank Swallow #museum specimen #ontogeny

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when i make excuses to stay in

#me #science #gif #The Flash

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Ladies and gentlemen, this is science in a nutshell

#science #my life is science #thankfully i don't work with mice #but i do work with samples that are in TERRIBLE condition #15+ year old tissues #moldy extractions left in a refrigerator (not frozen as it should be!!) for 5+ years #aaaaaaaaaaagh

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Stalking by elebe.foto

Leioheterodon madagascariensis

#Madagascar #reptile #snake #Leioheterodon #Leioheterodon madagascariensis

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Giant Madagascan hognose by elebe.foto

Leioheterodon madagascariensis

#Madagascar #reptile #snake #Leioheterodon #Leioheterodon madagascariensis

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Bernier's Striped Snake (Dromicodryas bernieri) by Scott Trageser

#Madagascar #snake #reptile #Dromicodryas #Dromicodryas bernieri

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Excellent frobs!!!!

spot the toads. in ecology, crypsis is the ability of an animal to avoid observation or detection by other animals, in this case toads which evolved to camouflage with dead leaves. (click pic or link for credit and species x, x, x, x, x, x)

#frog #amphibia #crypsis #I LOVE IT

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Thylacine

Submitted by Sandra Doyle

#thylacine #art #skull #anatomy #tasmanian tiger #nice

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Bernier's Striped Snake (Dromicodryas bernieri) by Scott Trageser

#Madagascar #snake #reptile #Dromicodryas #Dromicodryas bernieri

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The ostrich’s powerful legs allow it to reach speeds of over 40 miles an hour.

#bird #ostrich #anatomy #osteology #biomechanics #legs for days

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Research Suggests Dodos Might Have Been Quite Intelligent

New research suggests that the dodo, an extinct bird whose name has entered popular culture as a symbol of stupidity, was actually fairly smart. The work, published today in the Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, finds that the overall size of the dodo’s brain in relation to its body size was on par with its closest living relatives: pigeons—birds whose ability to be trained implies they’re no dummies. 

The dodo (Raphus cucullatus) was a large, flightless bird that lived on the island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean, where they were last seen alive in 1662. When sailors discovered the island  in the late 1500s, the dodo didn’t fear these new arrivals. That led to the birds being herded onto passing boats as an easy meal for passing sailors.

“Because of that behavior and invasive species that were introduced to the island, they disappeared in less than 100 years after humans arrived. Today, they are almost exclusively known for becoming extinct, and I think that’s why we’ve given them this reputation of being dumb,”said Eugenia Gold, the lead author of the paper, a research associate and recent graduate of the Museum’s Richard Gilder Graduate School, and an instructor in the Department of Anatomical Sciences at Stony Brook University.

Read how Gold managed to examine the brain of a long-extinct bird. 

#dodo #science #bird #AMNH