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The skull of a brown bear (Ursus arctos), photographed at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History.
The next time someone watches my apartment I will have to post a warning about the skulls. A few are in plain sight, like a badger skull on the bookshelf and a comparative set of small…
tags: Smithsonian Institution, National Zoo, museum, funding crisis
What's wrong with this picture: America is spending billions and billions of dollars to bomb the snot out of Iraq, but we can't even spare a fraction of that cost to fix our premier museum and zoo??
According to a news story that…
The skeleton of an orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus), photographed at the National Museum of Natural History.
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Lawrence Small has resigned. He has had an interesting tenure as Secretary of the Smithsonian. His collection of South American artifacts wound up putting him in violation of the Migratory Bird Treaty, and he tried to be allowed to use his community service time lobbying to revise that and…
That is so cool! I think pictures of these animals are not abundant in the web. Under all those scutes they´re pretty average tetrapods after all!
How about that neck flexion?
Wow, I love how they put the scales around the body, almost looks like a shell.
I believe that specimen is a Melanosuchus niger (black caiman), not an Alligator.