Ralph

Oddities reposting from a vampire

[thatsmolwolf]

Went to the coolest place ever for my birthday

[sleepybeastx]

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went to a museum today and saw some really sick taxidermy!!

[gremlingal222]

rest in pieces

[muttsandmustelidae]

🦡🐺

[seabeck]

Great blue heron brown pelican skull, not keeping it because MBTA but still a neat find.

[silverfactory]

two-headed lamb (born 1919) at the salt lake city pioneer museum

[ducissatenebrarum]

Memento Mori silver ring, English, 1700s

[bugtheories]

Today's work

[pacificremains]

Armadillo skull with its armor

[verysupersilly]

Don't trust collectors who say that nasal turbinates don't matter.

The inside of an animal’s nasal cavity tells us lots of information about the environment it lived in and the family it belongs to. Aggressive treatments such as boiling damage them: anyone who uses those methods to “clean” bones is not a true enthusiast.

In the photo: harp seal, wolverine, striped hyena, cheetah.

[xphaiea]

The Sacrum bone of Tequixquiac, discovered in Mexico, is an ancient paleo-Indian sculpture of a canine, carved in a pleistocene-era bone of a prehistoric camel. The carving, dated around 14,000 to 7,000 BCE, is considered among the earliest pieces of art from the American continent.

[orphic-mysteries]

Vinjeboka, the oldest preserved handbook of magic in Norway. Via karl_eikrem

"There are approximately 100 “black books” (“Svarteboker“) in Norway dating between 1650 and 1850, but the paper in Vinjeboka is from 1480 and the text no later than 1520. It was found under the floorboards in Vinje Stave Church in 1796. The Vinje book is also unique in that it documents religiosity and mentality from before the Reformation in Norway. The content includes herbal medicine recipes and medical advice for common aliments of the time such as Jaundice. Also present is “the pentacle of Solomon the King” and numerous prayers and orations in Latin, all of which are heavily Catholic." [x]

[verysupersilly]

Fun comparison between two species that are physically very similar but genetically pretty distant: chinese water deer (Hydropotes inermis) and siberian musk deer (Moschus moschiferus).

These are herbivorous animals, and the tusks are not used for hunting but for fighting. They can move them slightly back and forth. Cool!

[pacificremains]

Baby bison skull. Looks so bisony already, easy to tell apart from cattle babies via eye socket shape and nasal bones

[twulfs]

19/31 💀

[beardless-bearded-vulture]

Three gorgeous cheetah taxidermy mounts at the hunting museum in Riihimäki! These looked so good. I loved being able to take a closer look at them, to see their paws and nails, beautiful spots, and stunning faces. They're so big!

[evenstevenh]

Teethy grins!