#museum specimens

[dread-doughnuts]

Introducing The Skull Index

Hi all! Now that we are in the early launch phase of the project I’m really excited to share the Skull Index! This is a project a team of friends (led by @birbbones ) have been working on over the last several months; our goal is to provide a high quality free to use anatomy resource. This is meant to be used by anyone from scientists to artists to students. Feel free to check out the website, and if you’d like to stay up to date on the project join our Discord!

The Discord is 18+ for privacy and safety. We hope to see it become a hub for people who are either interested in or currently work in museums, education, and the natural sciences. It is of course open to anyone interested in and enthusiastic about the topic as well. And if you’re interested in collaborating on the project as a please feel free to contact us!

The website is a work in progress though we have a goal of completing it Q1 of 2024. Over 200 mammal species have been logged so far!

#vulture culture #natural history #museum specimens #vc #the skull index

[ornithologyorthodoxy]

5/21/23

#look at all these birds for sale on my website #use code #almightyballs #for 15% off #oil on canvas #ornithology #birbs #bird art #nature #natural history #museum specimens

[edgescience]

Anyone know what this Triceratops skull is? what specimen it might be based on? seems relatively small. It was uploaded to wikipedia commons by Tylwyth Eldar. I'm thinking it's in some french museum.

#paleontology #fossils #dinosaurs #scicomm #dinosaur #science #biology #nature #triceratops #ceratopsians #unnamed specimens #museum specimens

[robbie-roo]

was gonna make a post on making a study skin of a bird but

A. I forgot to take pictures

B. I don't think people want to read about taking a brain out

#zoology #biology #zoology major #study skin #museum specimens #ornithology

[mizelaneus]

#animal scans #museum specimens

[markscherz]

Those stuffed Ceratophrys blues

#this specimen is 182 years old #from Christmas Day in 1842 #and we just found out that it isn’t registered in our collection #which I can only attribute to it being so incredibly iconic #like who needs a number to remember this thing?? #Ceratophrys #Ceratophrys aurita #Natural History Museum of Denmark #NHMD #my face #that thing on the front of my skull #selfie

[heycrystalsmithart]

From my trip to Boston - the Museum of Science - they have a fantastic butterfly garden with lots of live (and dead) specimens to gaze at. This is their yellow collection apparently.

#butterfly #butterflies #Museum #specimen #boston #nature #naturelovers #travel #wanderlust #macrophotography #earthlove #massachusetts #exhibition #instamuseum #travellover #travelgram #instatravel #adventure #traveling #travelling #travelblogger #traveler

[bunjywunjy]

Im not gonna lie I genuinely was shocked to see you post a vulture culture post. Not that im not pleased! But of all the blogs I follow, Yours was not a suspect until I saw your name at the top.

it's not a thing I'm into myself but I am adjacent to many people who are into it and I sure can appreciate a good skull

#please make sure your stuff is appropriately sourced though and DO NOT BUY BATS #many bat species in asia and africa that are understudied are being drastically overharvested to make 'bat mummies' and museum specimens

[mothsperhour]

Goldf.inch this time, either an immature or a non breeding female? Did not know they have solid black wings and tail with white accents. This species overall has such an interesting color combo going on.

#vulture culture #dead animal #study skin #museum specimen #hoping to do a bigger project soon like a turtle

[beardless-bearded-vulture]

They had a wet specimen room at the museum in Bern, I had never seen jars with preserved penguins before! They had quite a few of them, all Adélie penguins sourced from the zoo in Basel

#vulture culture #wet specimen #bird. #natural history museum bern #museum #my post

[drinkinggblood]

thylacines make me so goddamn sad

#they just make me so goddamn viscerally upset #thylacine #my rambles #I remember a time I seen a thylacine pup in a museum face to face and just to know that this is one of the last specimens of such a #beautiful and important animal to the ppl of australia #people like me #make me so upset. #:[

[dead-dogs-still-fetch]

The Harvard Museum of Natural History

Some pics from last summer's trip to the Harvard Museum of Natural History. This museum is definitely one of my dreams, from everything to how they display the mounts to the wide variety. The mounts in the museum like most museums within the United States are actually pretty old but just well maintained. Along with taxidermy they also have a wide collection of minerals and anthropology exhibits.

#taxidermy #vulture culture #animal skull #animal bones #oddities #biology #skulls #curiosities #collection #natural history #natural history museum #museum #dark academia #zoology #anthropology #wet specimen #bugs

[ornithologyorthodoxy]

5/5/23

#art #painting #scientific illustration #oil painting #oil on canvas #original art #nature #fine art #bird #bird art #amnh #museum #taxidermy #museum specimens #commission

[florallyconscious]

Assorted Sphinx Moth Collection - Indiana State University

#moths #Pachysphinx modesta #Paonias myops #Smerinthus jamaicensis #Manduca pellenia #Sphinx moth #incredibly obsessed with this box i found in the insect collection at school #really good for my moth tattoo ideas #insect photography #insect cw #insect pinning #(Not my pins Im just the specimen museum curator) #™

[robbie-roo]

part two to my taxidermy adventures!

once again I will be showing images of dead animals in this post it is only the pelt but it is still a dead animal so here is your official warning

unfortunately I don't have an ending to my taxidermy adventure as my semester came to a close before I could make any more progress :( I will be reaching out to my professor to see if I can work on some future projects next semester though!

anyways! so we have a fully flayed squirrel now not to brag but I did amazing on the face and didn't cause any tears while skinning

(photos under read more)

so sort of behind my squirrel you can see the mount we will be using for this little lady this is made out of really thick styrophome like material and just so happened to fit almost perfectly! you'll notice there is no tail- that's something we will fix later on (I never got the chance on this mount :( )

brief pause to admire my little clay sculpture I made while kneading clay for the eyes teehee

but yes the next step is to find some eyeballs! you must measure the eye on the carcus to make sure you get something that will fit your pelt you do this by measuring the entire thing and taking the diameter then you find some glass or plastic eyes that are as close to that measurement as possible but keep in mind that skin is stretchy so something that is slightly too big could still fit pretty nicely

once you find an eye you have to stick it to the mount using clay and sometimes a little glue (we just used clay) you have to make a little hole and score the area to make sure things stick and then you can fit the head over it to make sure it fits

notice while I have her inside out you can see the inside of the ear and the eyelid are still attached to the skin once she is flipped the right way you can see why that was so important!

now it's time to fit the mount in- out mount had space for the feet to be empty so first we have to cut those off

so how to you get the skin on with a cut down the stomach? well you cant... it would be a lot easier to do with a cur down the spine but that can make sewing a little hard so how do we do it?

cut the mount up and glue it later of course!

so we cut up the mount and rough up the outside so the skin is more likely to stick

and here's our rough first fitting!

now it's time to adjust and reconnect all the pieces like a puzzle

unfortunately this is where I ended :( this was the week right before finals for me so I had to get home and study and unfortunately never found a time to finish up before the semester ended

but I can describe the next steps!

so now we have the mount in but we have a really floppy tail and that just won't work we want this little lady looking as alive as possible so to do this we get a piece of wire that slides all the way up the empty tail and we stick it right into the mount then it's time to glue!

I'm making this all sound a lot easier than it is this is a super tedious process and figuring out how the cut up sections fit together is honestly really difficult but once everything slots together all that's left to do is sew

we sew up our cut on the stomach and we sew those lips closed sometimes we find places we want to make look a little fuller such as the cheeks or around the stomach so we will pad these sections with cotton before we are too late

now all that's left is brushing out the fur and making her look a little more fluffy and letting her dry!

and that's it! I'm hoping I'll get to either finish her or work on something similar next semester but I hope this was interesting even without a finished product :)

#zoology #biology #animals #mammalogy #zoology major #taxidermy #museum studies #museum specimens #zoology museum #animal facts

[tinyzoologist]

I am once again catching myself getting sentimental about species descriptions... The sheer care and dedication of looking at a tiny little animal long and hard enough to observe every hair, every color facet, every ridge and bump on its body. The act of putting these miniscule details into obscure Latin words, like incantations for others to imagine and compare. The naming of a species - hello, little creature, we see you. You are special to us, here is what we will call you, we even printed a brand new label.

#entomology #taxonomy #museum work #do you cry about bugs or are you normal? #maybe it's pms maybe i just wanna be studied like a type specimen