(Credit: Instagram/Paris Museés/Audrey Pirault)
Showing posts with label art. Show all posts
Showing posts with label art. Show all posts
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(Credit: Jean Livet and 2007 Olympus BioScapes Digital Imaging Competition®)
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In the News: Life and Times of a Museum Specimen
Fig.1. Cast of Uintatherium anceps (Leidy, 1872) - syn. Dinoceras mirabile (Marsh 1872) skull, neck vertebrae at the Museum National d’Histoire Naturelle of Paris. This animal was part of the infamous Bone Wars in the late 19th century (Credit: Jebulon, 2010)
Specimens, collections, and the museums that house them have historical and cultural connections which stretch beyond their scientific value. Learn more about art from specimens, making a career out of ice cores, Albert Einstein’s brain, and more:
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