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"The Clipped Wing" (1931) by Australian artist Lionel Lindsay.

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Skeleton with an orange body. The Electric Physiology. 1886. Frontispiece.

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The Harlequin Beetle, lower right, with its remarkably long front legs, and two smaller species. Insects Abroad. 1883.

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Mike Mignola, “The Lonely”

watercolour on illustration board, 2023

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"Cats being instructed in the art of Mouse-catching by an Owl" By an unknown artist of the Lombard School, circa 1700

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Ornament botanical scroll. Nature in ornament. 1894.

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Audrey Hepburn as that daring, darling Holly Golightly in BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY’S (1961), dir. Blake Edwards

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Owen Gent (British, b. Exeter, England, based Bristol, South West, England) - The Blue Fox, Book Cover Illustration

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Feast your eyes on the Museum’s giant amethyst geode. Standing 9 ft (2.7 m) tall and weighing around 11,000 lbs (4,990 kg), it’s one of the largest specimens in our halls. How did this dazzling geode come to be? About 135 million years ago, the continental plates carrying South America and Africa began to separate. Magma poured out from fractures in Earth’s crust and large gas bubbles escaped from within the magma—becoming trapped in the rock as it solidified, forming cavities. Groundwater flowing into these spaces brought dissolved silica, which crystallized into quartz. Over millennia, most of these quartz crystals turned into rich purple amethyst.

Spot this and other amazing specimens in the Museum’s Mignone Halls of Gems and Minerals!

Photo: D.Finnin / © AMNH