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I often wonder what it might be like to be a museum attendant. I am funny that way. I do like how he is doing his best to be impervious to the presence of a three headed monster. This is British stiff-upper lippedness at it's best!
You need to get up really really early in the morning to see one of these soaring in the eastern sky. I looked it up in my bird book, but all they said was that this was extinct. I guess they didn't get up early enough.
'Endangered and Extinct' by creative recycling artist Val Hunt, an exhibition at Gloucester Cathedral, Saturday 26 September-Sunday 1 November 2020 in the Cloisters
From the Cathedral's website:
"This exhibition presents a subtle message about recycling and preservation, raising awareness of why the creatures on show are endangered or extinct...
Having worked for the past 29 years as a professional maker, Val Hunt continues to be amazed at the versatility of creative recycling. There is an enormous variety of discarded material just waiting to be reconstructed and given a new identity, especially Val's favourite material of drinks can metal. Intricate constructions and interesting textures are key elements found in her work, humour is also an added ingredient whenever possible.
Through experimentation, ingenuity and skill her work is always changing as she discovers new techniques and ways of constructing recycled materials to signal a new meaning. Her works recycles a diverse selection of throwaway material, from these she creates a fascinating selection of large and small sculptural pieces which are both appealing and informative.
Despite her use of manufactured materials, her main inspiration comes from the natural world. Val has a special interest in endangered and extinct species and most of her work reflects this. She makes animals, exotic birds, dinosaurs, insects and species of flora all on the edge or now extinct.
The increasing awareness of the effects of pollution, climate change, plastic in the Ocean and environment destruction on the habitat have influenced Val's work. She now dedicates her making to highlighting the plight of species that are on the edge or gone forever in her touring educational exhibition 'Endangered and Extinct'...
Val's work has been shown in exhibitions around the UK, Denmark, Japan, United Emirates, USA and toured overseas with the British Council. She has work in many permanent collections."
Paraphysornis is an extinct genus of giant flightless terror birds that inhabited Brazil during Late Oligocene or Early Miocene epochs.
Paraphysornis was 2.4 m (7 ft 10 in) tall and weighed approximately 180 kilograms (400 lb). It was calculated at having been around 1.4 m (4 ft 7 in) high at the back. Like Brontornis, Paraphysornis is more massively built than other phorusrhacids and has a shorter and stouter tarsometatarsus, which indicates less cursorial and possibly carrion-feeding habits.
Discovery
The nearly complete (%75) skeleton of one specimen (DGM-1418-R) recovered from the Tremembé Formation of the Taubaté Basin. The specimen only lacks most of the upper maxilla, braincase, pelvis and sternum. In the Museum of Natural History of Taubaté is exposed the almost complete skeleton of Paraphysornis found in 1982 by Herculano Alvarenga (Wikipedia).
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Kremlin Bicetre, France
A modern natural history museum, well worth visiting
Review of Museu De Historia Natural de Taubate
Reviewed August 15, 2013
In a modern setting, this museum displays a remarkable natural history collection brought together by Dr Herculano Alvarenga. The palaeontology section is especially good, with many original fossils and casts illustrating the history of life, with the emphasis on South America. One fo the highlights of the collection is the skeleton of the giant carnivorous bird Paraphysornis, found near Taubaté. The zoology collection is also worth seeing. This museum is of interest both for specialists and for the general public, including children. Definitely one of the main tourist attractions in Taubaté.
Date of experience: August 2013
The wild H-43: The last of its kind, with 35hrs remaining on the only pair of rotor blades left in the whole world....
...And yes she flew...
...And YES it was a GREAT demo!
Poem.
Tobermory to Kilchoan ferry.
Across the Sound of Mull.
Trundle and lumber the superb Loch Sunart
to the isolated but incomparable
peninsula of Ardnamurchan.
A beam of light breaks the cloud-cover
and “super-troupers” the ancient
volcanic slopes of Ben Hiant.
Triangular flashes of colour splash the scene.
Skimming, dancing, darting yachts
brighten the five-mile channel,
beneath the vibrant green dykes, sills and former lava flows
of a long extinct supervolcano.
Indian Skimmer...skimming smile emoticon ...on their winter visit.
An endangered species, these birds have the Chambal river as their last major breeding ground in the world, amid a dwindling population and possibly facing extinction.
(Image is Heavily Cropped)
On our way back from Nepalganj at India-Nepal border travelling by a lesser railroad to Gonda Junction. When some people are still not happy with the more comfortable luxury premium trains, higher speed, they simply cannot feel the simple luxury in the remote corners of the country where 60kmph is the metaphor of high speed, travelling by a soon to be extinct train is a matter of great achievement.
The Inner Basin Trail ascends from Lockett Meadow into the caldera of the San Francisco Peaks, an extinct volcano and home of the tallest peaks in Arizona. The first 1.7 miles of the trail winds through the extensive aspen forest flanking the upper reaches of the Peaks, joining the Waterline Trail briefly before following a jeep road into the caldera. The trail starts at an elevation of 8665 feet, gaining approximately 1200 feet over 2 miles on its way into the Inner Basin. The trail continues another 2 miles, gaining an additional 600 feet or so to join up with the Weatherford Trail.
Photo by Deborah Lee Soltesz, July 13, 2016. Source: U.S. Forest Service, Coconino National Forest. See Lockett Meadow Campground and Inner Basin No. 29 for information about this area of the Peaks on the Coconino National Forest website.
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Belemnites are an extinct group of squid-like Cephalopods related to modern octopi, squid, and cuttlefish. This fossil is from part of the animal's internal shell, sort of akin to the "cuttlebone" inside modern cuttlefish. My dad worked as a land surveyor in Montana starting in the early 1960s, and this fossil, along with others, was one of the treasures he'd sometimes bring home for me and my siblings in his lunchbox after a day in the field.
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Best if viewed large. The Harpy Eagle (Harpia harpyja), sometimes known as the American Harpy Eagle, is a Neotropical species of eagle. It is the largest and most powerful raptor found in the Americas, and among the largest extant species of eagles in the world. It usually inhabits tropical lowland rainforests in the upper (emergent) canopy layer. Destruction of its natural habitat has seen it vanish from many parts of its former range, and it is almost extinct in Central America.
Female Harpy Eagles typically weigh 6 to 9 kg (13 to 20 lb).[4][5] One exceptionally large captive female, "Jezebel", weighed 12.3 kg (27 lb).[6] Being captive, this large female may not be representative of the weight possible in wild Harpy Eagles due to differences in the food availability.[7][8] The male, in comparison, weighs only about 4 to 4.8 kg (8.8 to 11 lb).[4][5]The wings are relatively short and stubby, the female wing length measuring 58.3–62.6 cm, and the male wing length 54.3–58 cm.[4] Harpy Eagles are 89–105 cm (2.92–3.44 ft) long[5] and have a wingspan of 176 to 201 cm (5 ft 9 in to 6 ft 7 in).[4] Among extant eagles, only the Philippine Eagle and the Steller's Sea Eagle approach similar dimensions, although the wingspan of the Harpy Eagle is relatively small (an adaptation that increases maneuverability in forested habitats and is shared by other raptors in similar habitats) and is surpassed by several large eagles who live in more open habitats, such as the Haliaeetus and Aquila eagles.[4] The extinct Haast's Eagle was significantly larger than all extant eagles, including the Harpy.[9]
[edit] Distribution and habitatRare throughout its range, the Harpy Eagle is found from Mexico, through Central America and into South America to Argentina. In Central America the species is almost extinct, subsequent to the loss of much of the rainforest there.[10] In rainforests they live from the canopy to the emergent. Within the rainforest they hunt in the canopy or sometimes on the ground, and perch on emergent trees looking for prey.
Per Wikepedia
A pair of split and polished nautilus / ammonite fossil.
The ammonoids (marine animals) first appeared in the Denovian period (c. 409 million yrs ago) and became extinct at the close of the Cretaceous period (c. 66 million yrs ago).
Scale: 1:40
Producer: GeoWorld
Released: 2012
Time: Late Cretaceous South America
Commentary and additional photos: dinotoyblog.com/forum/index.php?topic=3390.msg122017#msg1...
Eastbound UP ZCIG4 passes the signal at West Wister on UP's Yuma Subdivision. Work on the double track project is well underway here, and soon this passing siding will be replaced with a section of double track with a new set of crossovers located just down the line.
Just partial remnants of an extinct volcano on the edge of Byron Bay, Australia. It erupted 23 million years ago on and off for 3 million years, stretched 40 kilometres across and reached 2 kilometres high, making it one of the world’s largest volcanos. Today the caldera stands 1100 metres. Since erupting, as the continent has drifted north, the hotspot now lurks around Melbourne and reaches into Tasmania.
E300 27799 heads out of Market St for Union St not realising the bus stop is hard on the corner now as you turn so misses the stop and has to pull in at the old stop on Union St.
Note the 4 bus stop. The 4 was withdrawn in 2016. The stop should read 1,1B and 2,