Museums · Science · Palaeontology · Nature
A mother dinosaur watches over her brood. This is a photograph of the display at the Museum of the Rockies, where in the 1980s and 1990s the skeleton of Maiasaura stood beside a model of a dinosaur nest with growing hatchlings. The point is that just such a Maiasaura nest,
Faith · Books · Palaeontology · Nature
On Permian shoals the damp chalk glimmers With the purple mother-of-pearl of an ammonite. It is the gleam of ancient dawns turned to stone, Time has grown horny. Here lie hidden The bones of the beast-like. Their decline Preceded the flowering of the dinosaurs, But it did
Heritage · Science · Palaeontology · Nature
A fossilised ant has been found in amber from the collection of the poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Its age is approximately 40 million years. The ant proved to be a representative of the extinct species Ctenobethylus goepperti. A black fly and a fungus gnat were also found in the
Archaeology · Museums · Science · Palaeontology · Nature
In 1951–1952 the anthropologist Otto Geist found these bones in the interior of Alaska and gave them to the museum, and from then until recently the exhibit was considered to be the remains of a mammoth. The situation changed in 2022, when the bones were subjected to radiocarbon dating.
Observations · Palaeontology · Humour
A pity it is only a model
Geography · Science · Palaeontology · People
Palaeontologist Andrey Spiridonov puts forward a very interesting idea of Baltica as one of the most ancient continental blocks of the Earth. He calls Baltica a palaeocontinent of the Palaeozoic era and, in effect, the ancient core of Europe, around which smaller continents have accreted over the past 450 million
Art · Palaeontology · Nature · Humour
Portrait of a Nanotyrannus. Wayne Barlow, 1995. Nanotyrannus lancensis is a disputed genus of dinosaurs. Some prefer to classify them as a separate species, others maintain that these are simply young, undersized specimens of Tyrannosaurus, only without wifi and emotional instability
Archaeology · Architecture · Museums · Palaeontology · Ethnography
An Ancient Egyptian Temple in the Middle of Siberia. What? Yes The Krasnoyarsk Museum of Local Lore is one of the oldest museums in Siberia and the Far East and one of the largest in Russia. Its building, designed in the Egyptian style, was the work of the distinguished Krasnoyarsk
Books · Science · Palaeontology · Nature
He trod with difficulty along the spur above the ice-bound river. There used to be many of them, the proud ones, many, and he was the last of such. Tried more than once in the storm, today he gave way, as if out of spite. From the arrows sticking
NB! · London · Museums · Palaeontology · Humour
London's Natural History Museum houses the most charming mammoth of all times and peoples. A model, not the real thing
Moscow · Science · Education · Palaeontology
The opening of a palaeontological song composed by students of the Moscow Institute of Geological Prospecting named after Ordzhonikidze in the 1950s. Oysters: massive, rounded-pentagonal calcareous shells. Ammonite: the shell of a cephalopod mollusc. Belemnite: an arrowhead-like carbonate formation inside the body of the eponymous two-gilled predator.
Art · Observations · Science · Palaeontology
How touching that a man was found, namely the nineteenth-century Belgian painter Léon Becker, who wished to record "The Mounting of the First Iguanodon from Bernissart in the Chapel of Saint George in Brussels", for that is what the picture is called. 1884. At that time, 30