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Extinct monsters : a popular account of some of the larger forms of ancient animal life / by Rev. H. N. Hutchinson ... with illustrations by J. Smit and others.
London : Chapman & Hall, 1896.
'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."
'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."
Agfa Agfapan APX 400 and APX 100, expired in July 2002.
Kodak Kodacolor-X CX 120 "Process promptly - Process C-22", expired in October 1965.
And two Perutz "17", 17 DIN, 40 ASA 3,5, expired in October 1965. Would anybody please have any hints on how the Perutz wants to be "promptly processed"? I do not seem to be able to find any info online. Also: is this a colour film? 0:-)
I am waiting for the right moment (and some info on developing the Perutz) before I bring them out for a shot…
Mock-up of the head and shoulders of Homo heidelbergensis -- a human ancestor -- on display in the Hall of Human Origins in the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C.
Homo heidelbergensis is an extinct human ancestor that lived between 600,000 and 400,000 years ago. Its immediate descendants were Homo neanderthalensis and us -- Homo sapiens. Homo heidelbergensis was discovered in the small German town of Mauer on October 21, 1907. The jaw was given to a professor at the University of Heidelberg (hence the name).
Homo heidelbergensis was tall (at least six feet, and often taller), with heavy and strong bones, and an exceptionally muscular body. Their brains were at least as large as Homo sapiens, and they had a rudimentary language. They created and used extensive stone tools and spears, painted with red ochre, and buried their dead.
Fossils of extinct plants from the Carboniferous (Pennsylvanian) time period - Lepidodendron stigmaria with rootlet scars (front), Calamites stem piece (middle right), and seed fern leaves (back). These plants released so much oxygen into the atmosphere when they grew that insects could grow to giant sizes during that time period, hence some people refer to it as the Age of Insects. The largest insect fossil known so far (there may be fossils we haven't found yet) was a dragonfly with a wingspan of 2.5 ft (75 cm)! These ginormous dimensions would not be possible in today's atmosphere with a lower level of oxygen. A lot of the plant biomass from these swampy forests ended up in coal deposits and has been or is being mined as fossil fuel these days. (Picture taken at the McKinney Geology Museum, leaf specimen found at Black Warrior Basin, Alabama, stigmaria at Norton, Virginia.)
Wicker Park Warlords from a time before the hood flipped affluent; found this acting on a tip from "Mr. Eastvill". Between Schiller & Evergreen on Damen. (Gang Graffiti)
This card is number three in a a series of extinct animal cards. It is printed with black water based speedball ink from a hand carved linoleum block. It is of the Stephens Island Wren(Xenicus lyalli). It was a small flightless wren native to Stephens Island, a small uninhabited island off New Zealand's South Island. A lighthouse was built on the island in 1894 and the entire species was supposedly wiped out by the lighthouse keeper's cat named Tibbles in that same year.
Project Title: Extinct Attractions Club Horizons
Created: 6/22/2006
Media: DVD
Description:
The DVD from the Extinct Attraction Club. Please see the following website for more information…
www.extinct-attractions-club.com/
Design:
The overall layout of the DVD cover is based on the originals but with a significant artist step forward. The original was simply a white pavilion logo with the attraction’s signature color as a background.
Legal/Technical Notes:
All projects completed by JLH are created and archived in high quality 300 – 600 dpi.
JLH Omnimedia is not associated with or endorsed by the Walt Disney Company.
Original artwork, graphics, and logos are ©Disney and/or JLH Omnimedia.
Unauthorized duplication and distribution are subject to prosecution and (in many cases termination from the Walt Disney Company.)
An extinct genus of ungulates which lived from the Late Eocene to the earliest Oligocene.
Dinosaur Court
This series of sculpted dinosaurs and extinct mammals was commissioned in 1854 and unveiled in 1856. This was designed to accompany the Crystal Palace in its new home in Bromley.
The beasts were built by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins, and were the first of their kind. Hawkins was assisted with Sir Richard Owen providing some technical guidance on the dinosaurs.
The design of some of these dinosaurs are rather innacurate, but others are believed to be quite realistic.
Crystal Palace Park came from the Penge Place estate when, in 1854, the Crystal Palace was moved from Hyde Park (where it was set up in 1851 for The Great Exhibition).
The Crystal Palace was designed by Joseph Paxton, who also played a role in the relocation and designing the new site with its Italian gardens and terraces.
The area waned in the late c19th, and despite hosting the Festival of Empire in 1911, the managing company declared bankruptcy. In 1913 the Earl of Plymouth purchased it to save it, and a public supscription was raised to purchase it for the nation.
It was a naval training ground during the Great War, after which it was the first Imperial War Museum.
The 1920s saw a programme of restoration and rejuvenation, but 30 November 1936 an office fire broke out and the building burned down.
Since then the Park has hosted various events and partial development. Today it is primarily a public park.
Taken in Crystal Palace
Fossils found during Bobby Boessenecker's field research. A) A nearly complete skull and lower jaw (from different individuals) of a bizarre new genus of phocoenid porpoise (also known from the San Diego Formation). B) A medium sized tympanic bulla of a minke whale-like mysticete (Balaenopteridae). C) A vertebra of a large bony fish, similar to a flounder. D) A fragment of calcified cartilage, with a magnified view showing the prismatic cartilage structure. E) Teeth of the great white shark, Carcharodon carcharias. F) The humerus (upper arm bone) of the extinct flightless penguin-like auk, Mancalla diegensis.
Mt Eden's summit crater and downtown Auckland city
From the book Our Mountains. www.ourmountainsbook.wordpress.com
Extinct monsters and creatures of other days : a popular account of some of the larger forms of ancient animal life / by Rev. H. N. Hutchinson. With illustrations by J. Smit, Alice B. Woodward, J. Green, Charles Knight, and others.
London : Chapman & Hall, 1910.
Posemètre à extinction d'écran "intégralement français", exemplaire n° 2340 aluminium émaillé et laiton nikelé (sic), échelles gravées. 8 cm, 60 g. Livré en étui aluminium avec notice 8 pages.
"Lire le temps de pose, en regard de l'ouverture du diaphragme, lorsque la lueur est sur le point de s'éteindre brusquement"
Bourse de matériel photographique, 31 octobre 2015, St-Bonnet de Mûre (Rhône)
Nola, female, is one of 7 Northern White Rhinos left in the world. Beyond breeding age, she lives at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park.
Once common throughout the country, by the 20th century the species had become extinct from the majority of Ireland, surviving only in a few isolated and fragmented populations mainly in the west. The main reasons for the species’ decline were related to hunting for its fur; loss of habitat through the destruction of forests; direct and indirect poisoning and persecution as a potential predator of livestock/game populations. Taxonomically, the species belongs to the Mustelid group of animals and it is related to wildlife such as the stoat, otter and badger. Adult pine marten are about the size of a domestic cat, hence the Irish name ‘Cat crainn‘, and have a long tail that can be half the length of their body. They have a rich fur coat, typically dark brown in colour and a distinguishing creamy-yellow throat patch. Pine marten are habitat specialists, requiring forest or scrub habitat to exist in an area. They are adept at climbing trees as they have powerful non-retractable claws. The species is primarily active at night and individuals live in territories that can vary in size from 60 hectares to 430 hectares. Males typically have bigger territories than females and there can be partial overlap between adjacent territories. Life expectancy can be up to ten years, although the majority of individuals are unlikely to survive past five years in the wild.
Distribution
Pine marten occur throughout mainland Europe, stretching from the Ural mountains in the east to Ireland at the western edge of the species global distribution. They can also be found in parts of the Middle East. In Europe, pine marten exist with a similar species called the beech or stone marten, although that species tends to be more associated with areas of human habitation. Also, in the eastern parts of pine marten distribution (mainly Russia) there is some overlap with a related marten species known as the sable.
In Ireland, pine marten were once widely distributed throughout every county. Current pine marten distribution is largely concentrated in western counties and the midlands of Ireland. The species now occurs in approximately 50% of its historical range. Pine marten remain extinct throughout the majority of Munster and are very rare in Ulster.
Den & Refuge Sites
Pine marten can utilise a variety of den sites, which are used for breeding. Den sites can include rock crevices, tree cavities, subterranean burrows, buildings (abandoned or occupied), old bird nests, squirrel dreys and log piles. These sites provide cover from weather extremes and safety from potential predators. Den sites are normally only occupied during the breeding season. Outside of this period, pine marten use what are termed refuge sites. Refuge sites can be very varied although normally they are located several metres off the ground in forest canopy. Upturned or blown over tress are often used as refuge sites but the species can exploit any habitat feature that provides cover and safety. Pine marten will tend to have refuge and den sites that are used repeatedly in a forest and they can have a high fidelity to these sites.
Reproduction
Pine marten are solitary and adults avoid contact with each other throughout most of the year. The species only breeds once with mating typically occurring in early summer between adults that are at least two years old. Pine marten have what is termed ‘delayed implantation’, which means that fertilised eggs are not implanted in the uterus until the following January. This is a strategy to ensure that young (known as kits) are born during the most favourable time of year, which for pine marten is during March and April. Typically, two to three kits will be born in spring, each weighing less than 30g. The kits will stay in the den for about six weeks and are totally dependent on the female. Kits will then start exploring the area around the den and will stay with the female for at least six months, up to a maximum of 12–16 months. After this period, juveniles will disperse and attempt to establish their own territory. Only a small number of juveniles will survive to become adults and breed. Pine marten are considered to be slow breeders both in the terms of the number of young that are produced and the age at which reproductive maturity is reached.
Foraging/Hunting/Diet
In terms of diet, pine marten are omnivorous taking both plant and animal material. In Ireland, pine marten exploit a variety of resources including berries, fruits, small mammals, invertebrates, birds and amphibians. In some areas where pine marten occur close to towns and villages the species will exploit rubbish bins for food. In other countries, pine martens rely heavily on microtine rodents such as voles and also in colder countries on carrion, especially in winter. When foraging, pine marten will usually stay within their own territory, which will have a variety of food resources available within it.
Quite an amazing new fossil skeleton of an extinct mammal seems to have appeared at the Natural History Museum.
Superdomain: Neomura
Domain: Eukaryota
(unranked): Unikonta
(unranked): Obazoa
(unranked): Opisthokonta
(unranked) Holozoa
(unranked) Filozoa
Kingdom: Animalia
Subkingdom: Eumetazoa
Clade: ParaHoxozoa
Clade: Bilateria
Clade: Nephrozoa
Superphylum: Deuterostomia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Olfactores
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
Clade: Eugnathostomata
Class: Chondrichthyes
Subclass: Elasmobranchii
Superorder: Batoidea
Order: Myliobatiformes
Suborder: Myliobatoidei
Superfamily: Dasyatoidea
Family: Mobulidae
Genus: Manta
Species: M. hyneiâ€
Bermuda has lost a number of its endemic invertebrates including the Bermuda Cicada (Tibicen bermudiana), which became extinct when the cedar forests disappeared. Some species feared extinct have been rediscovered including a Bermuda land snail (Poecilozonties circumfirmatus) and the Bermuda Ant (Odontomachus insularis).
Dunkleosteus terrelli (Newberry, 1873) - fossil fish skull bone (real) from the Devonian of Ohio, USA. (CMC VP7143, Cincinnati Museum of Natural History & Science, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA)
The placoderms are a group of extinct, mostly predatory fish that existed during the Middle Paleozoic (Silurian and Devonian). The most famous placoderm was Dunkleosteus, which was named after David Dunkle, an Ohio paleontologist. It was not a shark - it had a bony skull, a neck joint, and remarkably, the jaws lacked true teeth. Instead, the jawbones were sharp-edged and pointed.
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From museum signage:
The marks on the median dorsal plate of this specimen of Dunkleosteus (see arrow) were made by a formidable predator, most likely another Dunkleosteus with jaws capable of crushing the hard plates that form the head and thoracic shield of these large predatory fish.
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Classification: Animalia, Chordata, Vertebrata, Placodermi, Arthrodira, Dunkleosteidae
Stratigraphy: Cleveland Shale Member, upper Ohio Shale, Famennian Stage, upper Upper Devonian
Locality: Vermillion River, Lorain County, northeastern Ohio, USA
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Extinct monsters : a popular account of some of the larger forms of ancient animal life / by Rev. H. N. Hutchinson ... with illustrations by J. Smit and others.
London : Chapman & Hall, 1896.
These are two 'twin volcanoes', Grábrók,(in the bacground), and Grábrókarfell, both now forever (?) resting. Although not so impressive in size they pumped out a lot of lava which until this day gives its surrounding a very distinctive black look (seen on some other photos in this stream, eg. www.flickr.com/photos/39802802@N08/3886975012/ ).
The moment of extinction is generally considered to be the death of the last individual of the species, although the capacity to breed and recover may have been lost before this point.
In 1997 a fossil tree was found in an open-cast coal mine at Great Lumley. Parts of this "Cordaites" tree are on display in the Durham Botanic Gardens and at Great Lumley Millennium Park
These fossil trees have been examined by Professor Andrew Scott of London University, who reports that they are examples of an ancestor of modern fir trees (conifers). Logs of this type with similar carbonate mineralisation, have been found elsewhere in the world, but not previously in Britain. They are called Cordaites, a name used for extinct seed-bearing plants related to the conifers, Cordaites was a tall tree, up to 30 meters high, that had narrow strap-like leaves about one meter long. Although the long stems have not previously been found in Britain, leaves and branches are common fossils in the Coal Measures. The occurrence of mineralised tree trunks at Priors Close and not at other Coal Measures in Britain needs explanation.