The mammoth, sans wooliness:
The waterless room:
Pebrero 27, 2008
More fisheying the Museum of Natural History.
The grand entrance, with dinosaur:
The mammoth, sans wooliness:
The waterless room:
The mammoth, sans wooliness:
The waterless room:
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Can't wait til that new movie 2,500 B.C. comes out. It looks pretty good with dinosaurs, sabretooth tigers, etc.
The "mammoth" is a mastodon. Here's a description of the AMNH specimen, which is known as the "Warren mastodon."
The bigger one in the background is a mammoth. That fisheye lens really messes with the scale!
AJ, are you only going to watch 25%
of the movie?
The 25% with the special effects might be a good movie....
That turtle! Remember it well on a visit to NYC. Walked in and happened to look up.
Wow!!!!!!
Only time in my life I have been awed by a turtle.
Plus Ca Change
Lions and tigers and bears, oh my,
They give me the same nightmares at night,
As mammoths huge hairy and tusked (sigh)
Gave my ancestor hominids fright.
Doh!
I knew that "2,500 BC" did not sound right; but you guys knew what I meant.
The snarky Liberal observer:
It's nice to know that you can still find conservatives in New York.
Ha! These are great.
John Hawks, thanks. I knew when I wrote that I was taking a chance.
Everything turns into bones,
Everything crumples and dies,
I know that it's stupid to ask,
But why? Why? WHY?
John Hawks, thanks. I knew when I wrote that I was taking a chance.
Well, an unnatural knowledge of proboscideans is not necessarily a good thing!
I should have taken the trouble to do an extra shot of the information cards so I could label things properly. A mastodon is the more amazing animal too, isn't it? I feel bad about disrespecting it.
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