GrrlScientist is a female evolutionary biologist, ornithologist, aviculturist and writer. A native of the Pacific Northwest, she relocated from Seattle to NYC with her parrots after earning her PhD. In NYC, she was a postdoctoral fellow for two years, reconstructing a molecular phylogeny of the parrots of the South Pacific islands. GrrlScientist has written a science blog since 4 August 2004 (the early years are archived 
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.
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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