#natural history collections

[tiny-glued-things]

Miniature trilobite fossil

[resin trilobite bought here]

[naturalsciencesbelgium]

We've scanned the skull and the incredibly big antlers of Megaloceros giganteus or Irish elk! Quite a challenge, as you can see, but the result was there: a 3D version with all the details of the antlers of one of the largest cervids ever!

Irish elk lived during the same period as woolly mammoth and went extinct about 7,650 years ago.

[markscherz]

Those stuffed Ceratophrys blues

[katarinanavane]

Three new dollhouse curio cabinets! I didn't make the cabinets themselves but just found and arranged the contents.

[mispelled]

That build-a-bear guy

[srlgemstone]

Agate Pair

[ancientsstudies]

Natural History Museum by crazycatladyldn.

[dead-dogs-still-fetch]

A Trip to the Field Museum

Some past photos from my previous trip to the Field Museum last year during a free day. The museum has an amazing collection of specimens and fun temporary exhibits. The one they were hosting when we visited was the Blood Suckers exhibit.

The museum offers free admission days serval times a month for residents or students in Illinois.

[tiny-glued-things]

A miniature herbarium specimen that has a postcard, letter, Western Union telegram, and a packet with fern fragments.

A mini reproduction of an actual herbarium specimen (below). Images courtesy of the New York Botanical Garden (https://sweetgum.nybg.org/science/vh/). 

[llyfrenfys]

So I'm gonna come out and say I'm working on a Mari Lwyd related project right now. I have no idea how it's going to turn out but I'm having fun doing it!

Picture of a genuine horse skull I own for tax:

[muspeccoll]

It's dandelion season here in Columbia, and thanks to a visitor to our reading room, we found a beautiful dandelion in our copy of Leonhart Fuchs' De Historia Stirpium (1542). Dandelions are native to Eurasia and may have been brought to North America for medicinal purposes by early colonizers. VAULT OVR QK41 .F7 1542

[markscherz]

do you like tuataras ..

Yeah they're okay I guess

[katarinanavane]

Two mini rainbow curio collection shadowboxes.

[birbbones]

Stillborn African Lion (Female, Captive bred) and a little 4-month-old Domestic Kitten (Skull and skeleton I am cleaning and will be articulating!)

[srlgemstone]

Fortification Agate

Flower & Fortification Agate

[ancientsstudies]

Natural History Museum by awildflowerinlondon.