Hey, wanna see some weird stuff I own!?
You probably know that before modern museums existed, scientists, scolars and just weirdos in generall were keeping personal collections of artifacts to show of with. Those were called cabinets of curiosities! And I actually curated one of those for myself! And now I am showing you the highlight :D TW: Picture of dead horse in a book & teeth and bones
The first one is probably not much of an "artifact" like the other stuff I have picked to share, but I still think it is pretty & makes a great piece of decor on my desk. (Even still works thanks to my amateur repairs xD, and is great for lable making!)
My Ammonidea, a piece you probably already kno plenty about from my previouse post. So let's keep it short!
But here is a fossil that is probably a little more exiting! It's the size of my fist and it is a fossilised sea shell! It belongs to the class Gastropod & the guy I got it from told me it was found in the region of Gosau (in Upper Austria)
This one I actually dug out of a field when I was around 10 years old & helping a farmer harvest potatoes. Put it in my pocket and it has been sitting on my shelf ever since! It's a nice antler if you ask me. But suprisingly it wasn't even the earliest addition to my curiouse collection!
Ohh, now we are getting to the facinating part! An actuall probably fossilised shark tooth. Bought it from an art fair from a stand in the furthest corner (all mysteriouse) and according to my research it could be from the species Cretolamna, which is an extinct kind of makrel shark.
Almost exactly a year later that art fair was happening again & I stumbled across the same stand with the same woman maning it. So I obviously bought a crocodile tooth from her! (the left one, also ignore the backround, forgot to take a photo before putting it in the display) (That stand was 70% teeth of variouse animals, mostly shark crocodile and wild boar and the other 30% were preciose stones and jewlery)
Now we come to the oldest piece in my odd collection! A horse tooth! Yes really! I found it on a riverbank when I was still in elementary school and took it home in the asumption it is some kind of vertabret or spine bone from some animal. Put it in my display case years later when I found it in a drawer, and just last year I figured out what it actually was! A horse tooth! At least a part of the tooth because horses have really long teeth! And wanna know how I figured that out? By reading a book about the ice age, and that had a chapter about extinct horses and there I made the connection that modern horses have the same teeth! Because color& weight whise it isn't a fossil!
Here are the book pages to prove it, if you still don't believe me! xD (sorrx the book is german ':D but I think google translate should be able to help you out!)
Hope the pictures alone helped somewhat verify my claims xD Sorry again for the German part XD
Preserved bees! I found them dead in winter outside, brought them in and originally there were 3, but one actually was still alive! The other two you see here sadly didn't make it, so I found this little plastic case and a friend of mine helped me preserve them with some liquid. Don't ask me how. But they look cute on a shelf. (I really, really made sure they are dead before preserving them! They didn't move for a week before I went ahead with the process!)
I asume this also is a fossil, which I actually found myself while hiking! Could also just be some minderal incasement, but I am making an optimistic assumption here! Found it in the vicinity of the Grünberg, which is near Gmunden (Also a place in Austria) If any of you know how to veryfy what it is please tell me!
And here we have a non-fossilised sea shell! It's the size of my pinky, and I found it empty while on vacation in Italy last summer. (Around the region of Lignano) I also saw a bunch of hermit crabs using similar shells as houses, that's why I emphisised that it was empty when I found it at the beach.
And lastly a drangonfly wing I picked up somewhere outside and added to my microscope kit!
This leg of a housefly was already included in the kit (strange, but fun!) ...Oh and I should mention that I didn't pull the wing off, of a dead insect, I found it seperatly, just lying in the grass and took it home with me, hoping that that tape preserves it enought, which has worked great for me up to now!
Thanks for viewing my strange and partly a little grouse display! Hope you were as fascinated by it as I was & this wasn't even all of the strange thinks that I own. I am currently working on a few science related projects that I will also share with you once they are done! (Just to tease you a little I can say: Magnets, Pyramids and Animals) Probably gonna take another few weeks still, but I just wanted to tell you that my obsession with science and the strange and mysteriouse continues on into the experimental and into real life! (Part of the reason I want to study Biology or Physics xD I want a reason to reseach and experiment & look into unsolved mysteries!) But enought rambelings!
