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markscherz · 28 days

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Natural history museums hold innumerable misidentified specimens on their shelves. These specimens make their way into databases like GBIF, and muddy data that is used in global-scale analyses and other research drawing on such records. Careful verification of all specimens in a collection holding tens to hundreds of thousands of specimens would be a Herculean task that could take a dozen experts a decade. So, we often rely on spot checks.

Whilst searching our constrictor collection to see if we have any albino snakes (we don’t seem to), I came across this snake that had been identified as a Boa constrictor. It is in fact Malayopython reticulatus, a reticulated python. A quick new label and an update in our database, and I was able to move it over to the right shelf. Now it won’t muddy the waters further, and is able to be referred to by anyone interested in examining a retic.

How many more such cases are haunting our shelves of over 14 million objects? And that’s just the Natural History Museum of Denmark; there are billions of objects in similar collections globally. This is quite literally an astronomically huge problem.

#snake #animals #museum #natural history museum #natural history #NHMD #ZMUC #So many people on FB have just commented on the picture without reading the caption #it is quite funny #but also I realised this was in the wrong place by a part of the body from several metres away #not exactly sure how this error got made #but ultimately it doesn’t matter anymore

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peacefulandcozy · 8 months

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#edinburgh #scotland #england #london #bath #uk #united kingdom #germany #bremen #natural history museum #dark academia #dark academic aesthetic #rainy city #beautiful architecture #beautiful places #cambridge

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sitting-on-me-bum · 6 months

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Two females and a male golden snub-nosed monkey huddle together to keep warm in the extreme winter cold. Threatened mainly by forest loss and fragmentation, this endangered species is confined to central China. One of the shortlisted 25 images in the running for the Wildlife Photographer of the Year People’s Choice award at the Natural History Museum

Photograph: Minqiang Lu/2022 Wildlife Photographer of the Year

#minqiang lu #photographer #wildlife photographer of the year #golden snub-nosed monkey #monkey #animal #mammal #wildlife #china #natural history museum #nature

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katriaraden · 1 year

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my inventory series - what should I draw next? 🌿 prints

#original art #artists on tumblr #artists of tumblr #inventory #cottage core #cabin core #botanical art #museum #natural history museum #journaling #bujo #my art

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ancientsstudies · 1 year

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Natural History Museum by crazycatladyldn.

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amnhnyc · 6 months

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During the ice ages, between 2.6 million and 11,700 years ago, more than 50 different elephant relatives still roamed the globe—including mammoths and mastodons. But by the end of that period, extinctions had wiped out most giant mammals across the world. Today, only three elephant species remain: African savanna elephants, African forest elephants, and Asian elephants.

Learn more about proboscideans at the Museum’s upcoming exhibition: The Secret World of Elephants! Become a Member today, and see it before the public.

Image: © AMNH Library / Warren Mastodon by Charles Knight, circa 1908

#science #amnh #nature #natural history #paleontology #animals #elephants #mammoth #things to do in new york city #natural history museum #museum #ice age

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morecrearty · 1 month

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i lied about probably not drawing much for the rest of the month 🤥 i went to the natural history museum with my pal & we drew lots of wonky lil guys ✍🏻😌

i am pleased to announce that the main scanner at my local library has been fixed and now nobody will be spared from my sketchbook spreads xoxo

#my art #my stuff #sketchbook #artists on tumblr #doodles #museum sketches #natural history museum #dark academia #not really but i said so ❤️#sketchbook diaries #drawing trip #taxidermy #animal skull #photography #micron brush pen #micron 01 #hahnemuhle nostalgie sketchbook #stabilo pen 68 pastel gray #vulture culture

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professorcalculusstanaccount · 3 months

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Hi, I recently found your account on Instagram and it took me to your blog here, I just wanted to say that I immediately LOVED your art style and how you take the characters and capture their essence to put them into different situations. Also, the placement of under-used characters is something that personally appreciate a lot. Your animations are AWESOME, they feel organic and made with tons of love for the franchise, keep doing AMAZING work :)

Thank you very very much! Everyone on Instagram has been lovely too, if I have to be honest I still prefer posting to Tumblr just because the platform lets me go so much more in depth with the context.

The Instagram page is live at professorcalculusstanacc, I'm still working on original content for this blog as usual but I have been posting silly stories with @tenderlyhands - go follow the page if you'd like!

#asks #tintin #adventures of tintin #doll custom #ooak doll #british museum #natural history museum #london #welcome! thank you for exploring the blog #i abuse the read more feature a lot #instagram can't quite handle my posts #photoset

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princesscatherineblog · 12 days

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Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge visits The Angela Marmont Centre For UK Biodiversity at Natural History Museum on October 9, 2019 in London, England.

#kate middleton #duchess of cambridge #natural history museum #october 2019 #british royal family #royal style #royal family #british royal fandom

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citree · 17 days

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I keep seeing gorgeous pictures of museum exhibits floating around, and I just so happened to get the chance to go to the Natural History Museum in New York and go to the Met— would anyone be interested in seeing some of the pictures I took??? Super duper promise it wont just be a photo dump of selfies of me pointing excitedly at shapely statue butts

#txt #that trip was seriously such an amazing experience I’m so glad I go to see dinosaur bones #natural history #natural history museum #the metropolitan museum of art #ok photos incoming anyway I desperately wanna share them

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dead-dogs-still-fetch · 3 months

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Birds of The Harvard Museum of Natural History

Felt a separate post for the birds was warranted, the collection is huge. Everything from birds of prey, waterfowl, hummingbirds, and even a few extinct species.

Some of the parrots were looking a tad rough but you try to keep a corpse looking good for over a few decades.

#taxidermy #vulture culture #animal skull #animal bones #oddities #biology #curiosities #collection #birds #birds of prey #birds of north america #extinct species #zoology #natural history #natural history museum #ornithology

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markscherz · 8 months

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Hello Dr. Frog guy, may I ask for the biggest frog species please!

Thanks for the prompt! Here’s a TikTok by way of answer.

#frogs #science #animals #museums #natural history museum #Conraua goliath #Rhinella marina #Pyxicephalus adspersus #Lithobates catesbeianus #TikTok #my face #that thing on the front of my skull #me #waistcoat academics #I call my dress sense ‘academic chique’#Not pictured: the frog socks I am wearing #or my tweed jacket

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fannyrosie · 1 year

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Museum day with my dad at Redpath Museum

There was almost no one in the morning, so we managed to take a few pictures while visiting. People started arriving around noon, and we left shortly after. My dad is not a photographer at all, but with guidance, he ended up doing a good job.

Outfit rundown Tweed set: second-hand Métamorphose temps de fille Turtleneck : second-hand Fint Hat: old Rudsak (with added bow) Boots: old Fluevog Book bag: old Axes Femme (with vintage bus pass and flower corsage) Belt: thrifted Herb rack wooden brooch: @lotvdesigns Green landscape brooch: vintage Turtle earrings, oarfish and shiitake brooches: artists I can't remember