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More domestic dino-birds!  From top to bottom: a blue parakeet, a grey cockatiel, a Fischer’s lovebird, and a zebra finch.

(Disclaimer: I tried to do my research, but I’m no paleontologist - no doubt I messed up the anatomy in multiple places.)

Any idea what this might be? I assume it’s a fibula? The person I purchased it from said it was likely from either a possum or raccoon but it seems too large for that. Thank you for your help!

Hi! I was wondering if anyone could help me identify these skulls. I got them all as a gift from a friend, and she got them from an antique store a while back. But neither of us know the species for any of them, it would be nice to put names to skulls! Any help is appreciated.

When depression-era farmwomen had to start using flour bags and feed sacks to make clothes for their families, manufacturers began making their bags out of brightly-colored and printed fabrics to boost sales and add a little flair to the common sack dress. 

Once the trend caught on to the point that manufacturers were confident it would stick, they started making fabrics in an even wider variety of patterns and colors:

They even gave instructions on how to remove the ink, if you didn’t like the pattern:

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Kate Clark’s Twist on Taxidermy

Kate Clark, in a studio near Brooklyn Navy Yard, houses a variety of strange taxidermies . The interesting thing about her animals is that they all have human faces which have been sculpted from clay. She then uses the animal’s own facial skin to cover the faces. Kate uses recycled hides that are considered imperfect for trophy mounts.

SCIENTISTS IN OUTBACK Queensland have discovered a new species of fat-tailed gecko.

THE HAUNTED EXORCIST DOLL

In 1888 this doll was given to Cedric Argyle of London. The doll had previously been used in no fewer than 68 exorcisms. Reverend Thomas Blythe and his friend Mr. Argayus Brown used the doll in exorcisms when mischievous spirits haunted the stately homes and staff quarters of the gentry all over England.

During the exorcism the doll had been used to distract the spirit by being offered up as a plaything. Mr. Brown made the assumption that whilst the banishing of the spirit from the house it was haunting, it somehow had entered the doll trapping itself.

Thomas had often commented on the doll looking at him on numerous occasions and blinking or smiling. After a time the doll was finally photographed by a friend. When it was photographed again some 20 minutes later the photographer said he noticed the doll seemed to smile and it spooked him. No one took much notice until the plates were developed and the photographs revealed the face had actually changed!