GrrlScientist is an evolutionary biologist, ornithologist, aviculturist, birder and freelance science and nature writer. A native of the Pacific Northwest, she relocated from Seattle to NYC with her parrots after earning a BS in Microbiology (emphasis in Virology) and PhD in Zoology (Ornithology) from the University of Washington. In NYC, she was the Chapman Postdoctoral Fellow at the American Museum of Natural History for two years, pursuing part of her "dream" research project by reconstructing a molecular phylogeny of the parrots of the South Pacific islands. GrrlScientist and her five parrots are currently relocating to Germany, where she will continue writing her blog while also writing a book and learning German. (Meanwhile, her parrots will continue to nibble on her extensive personal library.) If you appreciate GrrlScientist's writing, you can help pay her living expenses by hiring her to "blog" your conference, speak at your club or write articles for your publication (or by clicking on the Paypal button below). If you read an essay on this blog that you especially enjoyed, please nominate it for inclusion in 
tags: subway art, coelacanth, AMNH, American Musuem of Natural History, NYCLife, NYC
Latimeria species, the legendary coelacanth, a living fossil,
as portrayed in tiles on the walls of the NYC uptown subway stop
(A-B-C) at 81st and Central Park West. (ISO, no zoom, no flash).
Image: GrrlScientist 2007 [wallpaper size].
This is my favorite of all the tile art pieces that can be seen at the AMNH stop on the uptown A-B-C subway lines.
Read more about the AMNH tile artworks and see the AMNH tile artworks photographic archives -- with all the animals identified.
Humanities & Social Science
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Happy New Year!
You are really going to town with your photography! I love to look at the tilework in the stations, and the MTA Museum store in Grand Central Terminal has refrigerator magents and terrific laminated bookmarks featuring some of it. I have a bookmark of a steamship done in tilework from the Fulton St. Station.
I agree with you that the AMNH station tilework is the most extraordinary.
Thanks for sharing.
Posted by: Annie | January 1, 2008 8:38 PM
I love the artwork in the AMNH station. There is another station with public sculpture that I really like. I think it is one of the 14th Street stations, but I don't remember which line.
Posted by: John | January 1, 2008 9:50 PM
I love this one, although I have to say I like the marine mural on the downtown stairway and the fossil casts down there, too.
Posted by: Laelaps | January 1, 2008 10:22 PM
Beautiful photo of a beautiful subject. The next time you are in Texas, a special trip to the Rainforest Pyramid aquarium at Galveston should be on the list. Keep taking and posting your pictures.
Posted by: biosparite | January 2, 2008 4:33 PM