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Post by Infinity Blade on Sept 1, 2023 5:31:56 GMT 5
On Tuesday, May 16, 2023, I visited the American Museum of Natural History – the largest natural history museum in the world – with my family members (my father and brother) on a week-long vacation to New York. The AMNH was, for me personally, the highlight of my trip. I had seen pictures of displays from the museum, I had bought a stack of AMNH-branded cards years ago, but up until then I had never visited the museum personally. But during and after my visit, it had become not only my favorite natural history museum in the world, but also my favorite place in the entire world. And this is coming from someone who had visited four other natural history museums before, two of which are also very extraordinary as far as they go (the National Museum of Natural History and the Natural History Museum in London). It is a bastion of natural history, through and through. During my visit, I took many photographs from this astounding museum and will share at least some of them one by one. If I ever visit the museum again (crossing my fingers that I do), I will be sure to let you know photos from subsequent visits are just that. During my visit, I think I've seen most of the nature and prehistory stuff, but neglected a lot of the space, rock & mineral, and much of the anthropology stuff. Feel free to comment on things as you please. And of course, if you ever find yourself in New York City, do give this museum a go! I sure would love to! I will start off with this batch of photos. Right below is a diorama meant to depict Pleistocene Alaska (particularly the Kuskokwim Mountains).    |
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Post by Exalt on Sept 1, 2023 6:00:04 GMT 5
Wishing I had gotten to it on my New York trip, years ago, but that was with a school group anyway and there's a lot going on in that city. I've only been to the one in Washington, and that's been quite awhile.
Would that diorama count as large-scale paleoart? What species is in the lower right corner of the last picture, btw? Also that one mammoth's tusks seem to form a heart shape, almost.
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Post by Infinity Blade on Sept 1, 2023 7:15:06 GMT 5
Wishing I had gotten to it on my New York trip, years ago, but that was with a school group anyway and there's a lot going on in that city. I've only been to the one in Washington, and that's been quite awhile. Would that diorama count as large-scale paleoart? What species is in the lower right corner of the last picture, btw? Also that one mammoth's tusks seem to form a heart shape, almost. The diorama's not actually big (as in, not taxidermied animal diorama-big), so it's not really large scale, but it's definitely paleoart (just 3D). The lower right thing is a saiga antelope. Mammoth tusks in general will point inward, so an individual having a more extreme version of this condition (where the tips cross over and form a heart shape) isn't out there. The mammoth skeleton mounted at the AMNH has just this, actually. |
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Post by Infinity Blade on Sept 2, 2023 4:03:22 GMT 5
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Post by Exalt on Sept 2, 2023 7:34:19 GMT 5
How lion-ish those Smilodon's look has me inclined to agree with you.
Some people do reconstruct Smilodon as having some kind of mane, but none like that.
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Post by Infinity Blade on Sept 3, 2023 1:46:09 GMT 5
How lion-ish those Smilodon's look has me inclined to agree with you.
Some people do reconstruct Smilodon as having some kind of mane, but none like that.
IMO the closest thing to it (and it is pretty darn close IMO) is the Papo roaring Smilodon.  |
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Post by Infinity Blade on Sept 3, 2023 1:56:11 GMT 5
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Post by Infinity Blade on Sept 12, 2023 18:23:49 GMT 5
So this museum has two caribou dioramas, both based on populations found in North America. The site of this diorama was the Alaska Peninsula.  The second one is set in Level Mountain in northwest British Columbia. These are Osborn's caribou.  Bighorn sheep. Diorama site is Mount Wilcox in Jasper National Park, Alberta.   Mountain goats. Diorama site is Tongass National Forest in southern Alaska.  |
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Post by Infinity Blade on Sept 16, 2023 7:01:48 GMT 5
Mule deer (Devils Tower National Monument, Wyoming).  White-tailed deer (Bear Mountain State Park, southern New York).  Antelope jackrabbit (Tanque Verde Ranch near Tuscon, Arizona).  Muskox (Northeast Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, Canada).  |
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Post by Infinity Blade on Sept 28, 2023 2:30:29 GMT 5
Why don't I take a brief break from North American mammals and show you some theropod skulls I photographed?   |
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Post by Infinity Blade on Nov 21, 2023 1:38:01 GMT 5
I haven't updated this thread in a while. Here's a Megacerops mount, with a healed pathological rib I took a pretty good close-up shot of.    |
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