NB! · Art · Palaeontology · Nature
A couple of days ago this steppe mammoth skull was sold for €269,000. The price is impressive, but so are the dimensions: one metre ten by one metre twenty by one metre thirty
Observations · Palaeontology · Nature · Ethnography
I shall not hold forth at length on Mesoamerican art and Egypt, still less on the views of Elliot Smith. I will say only that there were, of course, elephants in America. And of the most various kinds. If we speak of the family Elephantidae proper, America was widely populated
Observations · Palaeontology · Nature
Sicilian dwarf elephants stood no more than 1.8 metres tall and 1 metre at the shoulder. They are believed to have descended from a population of a large-bodied species, as did certain other dwarf elephants and mammoths that lived locally on the islands of the Mediterranean. Normal, large
Faith · Museums · Science · Education · Palaeontology · Nature
Dippy is one of the most famous dinosaurs in the world. Since 1979, tens of millions of people have seen him every year on visiting Britain's foremost natural history museum: the full-size skeleton stood in the museum's hall until 2017, when he was replaced by
NB! · Observations · Palaeontology · Nature · Humour
Russia is not only bears, vodka and the balalaika. It is also a three-metre mammoth tusk priced like a studio flat, on a classified-ads site. The photograph, incidentally, is splendid.
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 a Maiasaura stood beside a model of a dinosaur nest with growing hatchlings. The point is that a nest of just
NB! · Palaeontology · Nature · Humour
NB! · London · Palaeontology · Humour
At last, the native inhabitants of the planet will be shown the respect they deserve. British dinosaurs are to appear on the currency of the empire grrrrrr
Observations · Palaeontology · Nature · Humour
The pups Poppy and Sam have found an almost complete skeleton of an ichthyosaur, 190 million years old, on a beach in Somerset. Palaeontologists are now trying to establish whether the remains belong to a new species of extinct marine creature. In short, walk your doggies more often https://www.
Archaeology · Faith · Observations · Palaeontology
Though statements about the spiritual world of Palaeolithic people are pure fantasy, of course, given the complete absence of material. For the most part I take such theories as fantasy, but a SANCTUARY with mammoth bones is really something and fits my subject, so I could not help sharing it.
NB! · London · Museums · Observations · Palaeontology · Humour
Good heavens, I am in love! Just look at this tiny mammoth from the Natural History Museum in London 😍😍
Science · Palaeontology · Humour
This is the first dinosaur bone to receive a name, in the eighteenth century. It was christened Scrotum humanum, that is, the human scrotum. Why, I think, hardly needs explaining. The term does not, of course, conform to the Linnaean binomial, being rather descriptive in character. Some suppose that it