#specimens collections

[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

[canisalbus]

Nervous Machete from my class notes!

we were learning about the spread of christianity.

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#he seems very concerned about the spread of christianity #I never thought about this but are you guys out there in class and work drawing Machetes from memory? #if that's the case you have good visual memory this has such distinct likeness #another excellent specimen to add to my collection of tiny margin/scrap paper/post-it note Machetes #thank you! #gift art #wacky-nameless-inventor-24 #own characters #Machete

[cupcakeshakesnake]

No art. Fell sick + no motivation

Take a look at my collection instead...

#bone collecting #vulture culture #rat skeleton #wet specimen #animal skeleton #bird skeleton #snake's image post

[overthemoonminerals]

Amethyst on Matrix from Veracruz, Mexico

#amethyst #minerals #crystals #gems #rocks #nature #natural crystal #mineral collection #gems and minerals #crystal #gemstones #amethyst crystals #amethyst specimen #amethyst on matrix #amethyst crystal #amethyst point #amethyst points #Veracruz amethyst #Vera Cruz amethyst #raw amethyst #raw amethyst crystal #witchy #witchy things #witchy vibes #crystal witch #geology #geology rocks #rocks and minerals #rock collection #nature rocks

[srlgemstone]

Moss & Banded Agate

#banded agate #geode #moss agate #agate #achate #めのう #玛瑙 #마노 #collectibles #special collections #stone aesthetic #crystals #geology #rocks and minerals #gemstones #rock collection #mineral specimen #natural art #natural history #art of nature #nature

[scryillo]

aint bad with good company and a good drink

#trigun #vashwood #millymeryl #vash the stampede #vash saverem #meryl stryfe #milly thompson #nicholas d. wolfwood #nicholas d wolfwood #zazie the beast #trigun 98 #trigun fanart #scrib: linkings #worked on this for a trigun secret santa for a server... its a 98 specific fantasy western au a bit? #changed up the outfits slightly to reflect some victorian esque vibes [yes i know its not historically accurate it pains me but i was not #going to do costume design for a month and a half. nor did i have time to LOL] #but yeah! a bit of a vampire + vampire hunter au.... i did have a set of doodles i had in universe that accomponyed it but... idk if i have #the confidence to post fully gay shit yet lmfao #vash is a vampire. zazie is a vampire. insurance girls are vampire hunters assigned by the government and ww is a vigilante hunter... also #sent to collect specimen.... meryl could not believe vash was a vampire at first bc she thought vamps were supposed to act a certain way...

[chupacabracrafts]

This chonker of a road killed raccoon skeleton in finally ready to return to its finder! With his deformed left tibia and fibula, and well worn teeth, he was quite the memorable specimen to work with

#animal bones #bone cleaning #skull #skull collection #specimen #taxidermy #vulture culture #vc #cabinet of curiosities #osteology #macabre

[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/). 

#miniature #miniatures #tiny things #minis #herbarium #plant specimens #specimens #natural history collections #fern

[artiopoda]

finally got to see my campus’ marine invertebrate collection 𓆨

#🪐.txt #marine biology #marine bio posting #marine invertebrates #the collection is MASSIVE like shelves and shelves and shelves #and when you think there can’t possibly be more: cabinets!! #and then beneath those: drawers!!! #there’s equipment in there copyrighted from 1940 #it’s really like a formaldehyde-smelling time capsule #plus we have so many international specimens on loan to study :0 #I found it VERY NEAT !! #aes #image ids are in alt text btw!! #bugs #insects #<- sort of ish. tagging in case #giant isopod

[pageofheartdj]

I am starting to think there is a difference in Collector’s ‘being broken’ and ‘being taken away’.

When Collector is talking about ‘mortals being broken’ he uses himself as an example, something living.

Yes, this is a toy him, but he is aware that real him is not a toy. And he is talking about this with so much certainty, that it leads me to believe he already had an experience with ‘broken’ mortals that he ‘fixed’.

And then we have ‘disappeared’

and ‘being taken’ by Archivists.

The difference is that there is no body to try and ‘fix’.

Luz’s body was destroyed by titan’s magic. I am sure if her body was destroyed by some other means, Collector’s magic could have worked. But this one was titan’s magic. And she ‘disappeared’.

And the reason why I even started thinking about it xD

I am 99% sure the Archivists had killed all the baby titans. I doubt they would collected them, since they feared their magic and who knows, maybe passive titan magic would have eventually had broken them out.

But we saw all the baby titans skulls.

This means Archivists could have a touch of sympathy to not straight up kill them in front of Collector. There are options that Collector could have tried to ‘fix’ them, which could not work because of titan magic, or Archivists could have stopped him from trying if this was the possibility.

But I like to think there was some care.

#the owl house #toh #the collector #toh spoilers #toh archivists #i like to think that they sent him down before they learned about titan magic #and before the conflict had started #so they did not think much about collector befriending the titans #they would collected some specimen not all of them

[charyou-tree]

Another rock show, another great find!

My wife and I drove to the other side of town for another rock and mineral club’s show, and I feel like I stole the stuff I came home with. First, while my wife and I were browsing a display of jewelry with cut stones, the woman running the stand commented on my opal necklace. She looked more than a little surprised when I told her I cut the stone myself, using a diamond-grit knife sharpening block of all things. I could only say "I know that's the wrong way to do that, but I wasn't going to buy a $500 cutting wheel to do one stone!" (it was a lockdown project)

Chatted for a while with another dealer about his small display of unusual faceted stones. He had this one enormous almost 40 carat faceted peridot bigger than my thumbnail. I didn't know they came that big! I don't even want to know what he'd ask for that... But he was so nice and spent so long talking to us, I felt like I should buy something. He had this cute little pink tourmaline crystal for only $14 so I grabbed that to say thanks.

But the real show was still to come.

I had my eye on a bright mint green dioptase specimen another dealer had, but it was a couple hundred bucks, and I didn't really want to spend that much on a rock. While I was mulling that over, I saw a dealer I’ve seen before at a couple other local mineral shows was back with his amazing stock of Ethiopian opals. He had a couple giant pieces of amazingly clear crystal opal the size of my fist sitting in a bowl of water. I turned them over to get a look at the play of color, but I was afraid to pick them up and maybe drop a multi-thousand dollar rock.

However, he also had trays of smaller pieces sorted by price per carat. It was like a box of bifrost shrapnel, glittering in overlapping rainbow colors under the bright lights in his booth (very important when you're selling opal!). One particular piece caught my eye, but I was afraid to ask what he wanted for it, last time I tried that with one of his pieces it was >$300 and I had to put it back :( . When he told me that this beautiful crystal opal was only $62 I had to have it.

Like, sure, it has a couple cracks in it and its a funny shape, but I'm not going to cut it so who cares? LOOK AT THOSE OVERLAPPING LAYERS OF RAINBOW IRIDESCENCE! I turn it around at the end of the video because that same side of the stone is blue, green, yellow, or even red depending how you look at it and how the light is oriented. Sometimes you can see multiple colors through each other. Its doing what I associate with good opals, and completely saturating the red/green/blue pixels of my phone camera when the play of color is lined up right.

This is the opal specimen I've been looking for. This is why I love going to rock shows, some of this stuff has to be seen in person to be appreciated. Photos are nice, videos are better, but opals need to be seen to be believed. Those colors are unreal bright.

#rocks #minerals #mineral specimen #opal #crystal opal #Ethiopian opal #tourmaline #mineral collection #iridescence

[blistexenthusiast]

19th century microscope plates

#historical artifacts #ephemera #vintage #victorian era #scientific equipment #collection #19th century #arsenic green #scheele's green #specimen #dark academia #academia #antique #⭒* ·˚ ☾ ⊹.

[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

[overthemoonminerals]

Fluorite from Taraba State, Nigeria

This piece (along with everything else we post here) is completely natural and unpolished. The intense blue coloration you see in the picture is caused by daylight fluorescence. This fluorite changes color in the sun! It is dark purple in indoor lighting and turns a vibrant blue in sunlight.

#fluorite #minerals #crystals #gems #gems and minerals #nature #natural crystal #mineral collection #crystal #gemstones #rocks #fluorescent #fluorescent minerals #fluorite crystal #fluorite specimen #fluorite crystals #fluorite cube #color change fluorite #Nigerian fluorite #natural crystals #witchy #witchy vibes #geology #geology rocks #crystal magic #magic #blue crystals #purple crystals

[srlgemstone]

Banded Agate

#crystals #banded agate #laguna agate #agate collector #stone aesthetic #collectibles #geology #gemstones #achat #rocks and minerals #agata #special collections #crystal collection #natural healing #natural history #quartz #blue agate #geology rocks #mineral specimen

[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) #™