Ralph

Creature Comforts

Went to the coolest place ever for my birthday

rest in pieces

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Great blue heron brown pelican skull, not keeping it because MBTA but still a neat find.

two-headed lamb (born 1919) at the salt lake city pioneer museum

Memento Mori silver ring, English, 1700s

Today's work

Armadillo skull with its armor

In the photo: harp seal, wolverine, striped hyena, cheetah.

The Sacrum bone of Tequixquiac, discovered in Mexico, is an ancient paleo-Indian sculpture of a canine, carved in a pleistocene-era bone of a prehistoric camel. The carving, dated around 14,000 to 7,000 BCE, is considered among the earliest pieces of art from the American continent.

"There are approximately 100 “black books” (“Svarteboker“) in Norway dating between 1650 and 1850, but the paper in Vinjeboka is from 1480 and the text no later than 1520. It was found under the floorboards in Vinje Stave Church in 1796. The Vinje book is also unique in that it documents religiosity and mentality from before the Reformation in Norway. The content includes herbal medicine recipes and medical advice for common aliments of the time such as Jaundice. Also present is “the pentacle of Solomon the King” and numerous prayers and orations in Latin, all of which are heavily Catholic." [x]

These are herbivorous animals, and the tusks are not used for hunting but for fighting. They can move them slightly back and forth. Cool!

Baby bison skull. Looks so bisony already, easy to tell apart from cattle babies via eye socket shape and nasal bones

19/31 💀

Three gorgeous cheetah taxidermy mounts at the hunting museum in Riihimäki! These looked so good. I loved being able to take a closer look at them, to see their paws and nails, beautiful spots, and stunning faces. They're so big!