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He trod with effort on the spur above the icebound river. There used to be more of them, the proud ones, many of them, and he was the last of that kind. Tried more than once in the storm, today, as if out of spite, he gave way. From the
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The enchanting model of a dwarf elephant calf at the American Museum of Natural History is one of the sweetest things ever made by the exhibition department of any museum whatsoever. The calf is no larger than a pet dog, while the adult of this extinct species stood a mere
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How about this for a fossil? I am sure there is still some 10 per cent of charge left in it
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The Natural History Museum of Venice grew out of the collection of the Venetian patrician Teodoro Correr, who in 1830 bequeathed his colossal cabinet-of-curiosities-style holdings to the city, together with substantial funds to found a public museum and to maintain it thereafter in the three halls and
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and The trumpet of scientific judgement, which raised extinct species from the dead so that they might appear before the tribunal of naturalists - witty illustrations from the astronomer Camille Flammarion's book The World Before the Creation of Man, 1886
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The moa: giant dinornithiform birds, up to 3.6 metres tall and 250 kg. Entirely wingless. All that remained of their wings was a tiny little digit. They lived in New Zealand. They were wiped out completely in only 100 to 200 years by the tribes who settled the islands
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The Magdeburg Unicorn is a famous chimera of the seventeenth century. In 1663 this reconstruction of the supposed appearance of its owner was made from bones found in the mountains. The author of the unicorn hypothesis was the physicist, engineer and burgomaster of Magdeburg, Otto von Guericke. A hundred years
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In these pots before you is narrow-leaved catchfly, a plant of the pink family (Caryophyllaceae) common in tundra conditions. What is so special about these unprepossessing flowers? If nothing else, that they were grown from the tissues of a plant 38,000 years old, preserved in the permafrost. As
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The woman and the velociraptor. In the photograph: Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska (1925 - 2015), one of the world's most distinguished palaeontologists and a key figure of post-war science in Poland. The chief objects of Zofia's scientific work were the trilobites of Central Europe, the dinosaurs of
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There have been other occasions when modern people ate frozen representatives of the Pleistocene megafauna found in icy landscapes. And I am not speaking of Andrew Bergman's crime comedy "The Freshman", in which, for a million dollars, Hawaiian tiger fish mixed with smoked turkey was served
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