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Post by creature386 on Jun 7, 2013 13:56:54 GMT 5
We already had one topic on carnivora about the best dinosaur museums (I changed it to nature museums in general) and one about the best zoos, so I made a topic here to combine it.
As I said in the best museums topic on CF, it seems like the museum in NY is the best, because from what I read, it is one of the largest and most celebrated museums in the world. There weren't many museums mentioned in the topic, but it seems like the musuem in London is aswell a good contender. Judging from the comments on carnivora, the zoos in Toronto, Singapore and Bronx are the best zoos. I don't know about aquaria, there weren't many mentioned, but very likely that title goes to the atlanta aquarium, as it is the largest.
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Post by creature386 on Jul 13, 2013 15:07:53 GMT 5
Anyone?
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Post by theropod on Jul 13, 2013 16:59:18 GMT 5
The best zoological museum in general I ever was to is the Natural History Museum in London, size is decisive here. Specifically for Dinosaurs, I can suggest the sauriermuseum. It's not very big, but stuffed full with great skeletons, many of them original (eg. big al two). I really like the museums in Holzmaden for their ichthyosaur collections. Again, they are not very big but show very nice fossils. I'm not sure about the rest, I apparently wasn't to many zoos and aquaria in my life.
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Post by creature386 on Jul 13, 2013 18:57:55 GMT 5
I barely visited museums, zoos, aquaria ect., except for the ones where I live (I were in others too, but they normally were quite unimpressive).
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Post by Derdadort on Jul 19, 2013 12:55:22 GMT 5
Two museums I very liked were the museum for palaeontology in Munich and the Humboldt museum in Berlin, because of the Tendaguru-Dinos (Giraffatitan,...). I also wasn't in many different zoos, but I enjoyed the one in Stuttgart (crocodiles ).
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Post by Infinity Blade on Aug 31, 2023 4:49:01 GMT 5
I visited the American Museum of Natural History back in May.
That place is now my favorite place in the entire world, and I haven't even seen everything in it (although, I think I covered most of the nature and prehistory stuff). Scott Hartman not too long ago called it a temple to natural history, and he was right. I started a biology Masters program just yesterday, but I wouldn't mind working there and doing stuff with their collections one day.
I took so many freaking pictures too. Before my family and I ate lunch most of my phone's battery life was already drained from taking so many photos. I might share some later.
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Post by Life on Aug 31, 2023 12:26:33 GMT 5
I visited the American Museum of Natural History back in May. That place is now my favorite place in the entire world, and I haven't even seen everything in it (although, I think I covered most of the nature and prehistory stuff). Scott Hartman not too long ago called it a temple to natural history, and he was right. I started a biology Masters program just yesterday, but I wouldn't mind working there and doing stuff with their collections one day. I took so many freaking pictures too. Before my family and I ate lunch most of my phone's battery life was already drained from taking so many photos. I might share some later. You are welcome to post these photos. Create a new thread and stick it.
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Post by Infinity Blade on Sept 1, 2023 5:38:58 GMT 5
I visited the American Museum of Natural History back in May. That place is now my favorite place in the entire world, and I haven't even seen everything in it (although, I think I covered most of the nature and prehistory stuff). Scott Hartman not too long ago called it a temple to natural history, and he was right. I started a biology Masters program just yesterday, but I wouldn't mind working there and doing stuff with their collections one day. I took so many freaking pictures too. Before my family and I ate lunch most of my phone's battery life was already drained from taking so many photos. I might share some later. You are welcome to post these photos. Create a new thread and stick it. Done! theworldofanimals.proboards.com/thread/3966/infinity-blades-amnh-thread
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Post by Infinity Blade on Oct 20, 2023 2:32:04 GMT 5
I don't know what museum this is at (must be in Japan, though), but whichever it is it's an automatic A-tier for displaying this. It's a baby T. rex vs a Didelphodon ( link->).
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Post by dinosauria101 on Oct 20, 2023 2:55:25 GMT 5
I don't know what museum this is at (must be in Japan, though), but whichever it is it's an automatic A-tier for displaying this. It's a baby T. rex vs a Didelphodon ( link->). I couldn't find a picture of them both together, but here: you deserve the opinions of the relevant WWD animals for finding such.
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Post by Infinity Blade on Oct 20, 2023 5:22:17 GMT 5
I don't know what museum this is at (must be in Japan, though), but whichever it is it's an automatic A-tier for displaying this. It's a baby T. rex vs a Didelphodon ( link->). I couldn't find a picture of them both together, but here: you deserve the opinions of the relevant WWD animals for finding such. Funny thing about the opinions of the animals in question: I remembered this mount due to something I read today in The Rise and Reign of the Mammals by Steve Brusatte. At one point he claims that Didelphodon probably was, pound for pound, an even more ferocious fighter than T. rex. I respectfully disagree. But I also remembered this mount and the fact that a baby T. rex could already be the size of a Didelphodon (and could theoretically get into a scrap with it). Given how tyrannosaurids seem to have been superprecocial, able to run and hunt even at a very young age, I actually wouldn't put it past this baby rex to be able to hold its own. Also, while this isn't WWD, there is an actual mount somewhere with an adult T. rex perturbing a Didelphodon.
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Post by Exalt on Oct 20, 2023 5:44:46 GMT 5
Evidence for the precociousness?
Would T.Rex's toe be heavier than the Didelphodon's entire body?
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Post by dinosauria101 on Oct 20, 2023 6:18:10 GMT 5
I couldn't find a picture of them both together, but here: you deserve the opinions of the relevant WWD animals for finding such. Funny thing about the opinions of the animals in question: I remembered this mount due to something I read today in The Rise and Reign of the Mammals by Steve Brusatte. At one point he claims that Didelphodon probably was, pound for pound, an even more ferocious fighter than T. rex. I respectfully disagree. But I also remembered this mount and the fact that a baby T. rex could already be the size of a Didelphodon (and could theoretically get into a scrap with it). Given how tyrannosaurids seem to have been superprecocial, able to run and hunt even at a very young age, I actually wouldn't put it past this baby rex to be able to hold its own. Well............let's just ask the WWD T. rex what she thinks of that idea! makeagif.com/i/Qvwd9FShe doesn't just disagree, she disrespectfully disagrees. If Steve Brusatte cares at all about his safety, he would do well to keep that book well away from the TV whenever he rewatches Death of a Dynasty. This was most definitely WWD inspired. More museum mounts should be!
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Post by Infinity Blade on Oct 20, 2023 6:57:00 GMT 5
Evidence for the precociousness? Dietary shifts between juvenile and adult tyrannosaurids exemplified by a juvenile Tarbosaurus skull (this juvenile would have been hunting smaller prey than adults; smaller prey is of course still prey) ( Tsuihiji et al., 2011). Apparently embryonic tyrannosaurid remains sporting functional teeth (if an embryo has some functional teeth, then it should be born with said functional teeth and should be using them; if it was altricial and helpless as a baby, it would not have these) ( Funston et al., 2021). This info doesn't seem to be published yet, but perhaps still worth noting. bmit.lightsource.ca/research-highlights/categories/research-highlights/
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Post by Exalt on Oct 20, 2023 7:02:02 GMT 5
Speaking of functional teeth at such an early age, I once heard a story about someone dissecting a shark, and ended up being bitten by an embryo.
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