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What’s a Hamerkop (Scopus umbretta)? It’s a bird, named for its hammer-shaped head! Pointed feathers that jut out behind its head contribute to its signature look. This bird has a wide range south of the Sahara Desert and in Madagascar, ... 3 Comments

Would be awesome to go see them in their habit. Great info👍Birds rock!

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You may be familiar with the wombat, but do you know the numbat (Myrmecobius fasciatus)? This carnivorous marsupial is Australia’s only native mammal to keep exclusively daytime hours! It’s easily recognizable for its unique fur: black-and-white bands adorn its back ... 19 Comments

Looks like a high class squirrel! I love that it eats termites!This little critter is new to me. He is cute.The 'numbat.' Haha! The numbnuts of the 'bat' family. Is he a relative of the dingbat? He looks like Scrat ...

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Happy Fossil Friday! Meet Nyctosaurus. It lived about 85 million years ago during the Late Cretaceous. With a wingspan of 6 to 10 feet (1.8 to 3.0 meters), this pterosaur also had two long, thin bones sticking out of its ... 18 Comments

I do not think it looks very friendly though!If someone makes exact, to-scale copies of that skeleton, out of resin or something... I mean, it's beautiful. It would ...Nature, you crazy. Thank you for the pics i was having a really hard time visualizing what I was looking ...

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Have you ever heard of the Australasian Grass-Owl (Tyto longimembris)? It’s native to parts of northern and northeastern Australia, where it’s more commonly referred to as the Eastern Grass Owl. As its name suggests, this owl prefers to live, breed, ... 12 Comments

Looks like the barn owl found in North America— Tyto alba...I wish the goblins would come and take me away right now....was worth a shot.Looks like a Barn owl.

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The Scientist Is In: Biodiversity Conservation in the Time of COVID Join the Museum’s Jaffe Chief Conservation Scientist Eleanor Sterling of the Center for Biodiversity and Conservation as she explores some of the ways in which the COVID-19 pandemic has affected biodiversity conservation efforts.
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Happy birthday to astrophysicist Charlotte Moore Sitterly, born on this day in 1898! Dr. Sitterly’s love for mathematics led her to astronomy—and to the study of sunlight. As a computer at Princeton, she researched binary stars and analyzed spectra while ... 16 Comments

Happy joyous birthday!Wow! Awesome lady!Amazing scientist!

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Learning from Our Past: Understanding Earth's Climate History and Future Join scientists from the International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP) for a panel discussion of different moments in the history of Earth's climate–from the extinction of the dinosaurs, to different ice ages–that shed light on the current climatic moment, and its ... 151 Comments

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Meet the Purple-crowned Fairywren (Malurus coronatus)! It’s native to parts of northern Australia, where it inhabits areas that offer lush tropical vegetation and are near freshwater. It dines on a range of invertebrates such as beetles, grasshoppers, and spiders. How ... 34 Comments

Wow! Appropriately named Fairywren looks like a magical bird!Purple and turquoise, what a dandy fellow! He'll have his pick of females in no time . . .Just reading about their exciting lives in Jennifer Ackerman’s “ The Bird Way”.

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On this day in 1846, the ice giant Neptune was discovered. It had been predicted mathematically and even observed centuries earlier by Galileo, who hadn’t recognized it was a planet. At about 2.8 billion miles away from the Sun, Neptune ... 28 Comments

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(Hey, I'm old school; Pluto was a planet when I was born, so as far as I'm ...I didn’t realize Uranus was visible unaided.
Interesting that it was also only identified as a planet by Herschel in ...Impressive. I didn’t know the large dark storm spot is the size of Earth!

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Photos from American Museum of Natural History's post Welcome to Trilobite Tuesday! Would you guess that these two photos are of the same trilobite? These images demonstrate the degree of work that goes into the preparation process of freeing such Paleozoic remnants from their eons-old sedimentary encasements. Pictured ... 19 Comments

Yet one more reason to love paleontologists and the demanding work they do!!! Thanks for sharing this photo!Ever since high school geology, I’ve loved to climb up road cuts in southern Ohio to search for trilobite fossils. ...A video of this work being done and description of the tools used would be cool too.

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Did you know? Today is World Rhino Day! There are currently five species of rhino; some have two horns while others have one. The black rhino and white rhino are native to Africa, and both have two horns. The greater ... 15 Comments

Beautiful creatures, they look so similar to the triceratops, it would be devastating if they were to go extinct too. Majestic. To lose them is to lose a piece of long natural history.The "cultures" in question. https://www.savetherhino.org/thorny-issues/tackling-the-demand-for-rhino-horn/

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Fall is here—and to help get you into the seasonal spirit, soak in the colors of the fall foliage in the Museum’s Stissing Mountain diorama. This scene is set on an October afternoon near Stissing Mountain, located 90 miles north ... 13 Comments

American Museum of Natural History The Museum is open Wednesday-Sunday, 10 am-5:30 pm. For more details, visit here: https://www.amnh.org/plan-your-visit I'll always look at this diorama when visiting the museum. One of my favorites.What amazes me most - and what many don't realize - is the fact that all the leaves, and grasses ...

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What’s that bird? It’s the Rainbow Pitta! A native to parts of northern Australia, it lives in a variety of forest habitats such as monsoon rainforests and gallery forests. It hops about the forest floor foraging through leaf litter to ... 10 Comments

This fine fellow looks like a black bird wearing a fancy coat.This is an original plate painted by Helga Erritzøe to illustrate her husband Johannes Erritzoe’s Pittas of the World This guy is simply gorgeous! What stunning colors. 😃

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Peek-a-boo: It’s the corn snake (Pantherophis guttatus)! You might spot this stealthy reptile within its wide range across the eastern United States, in a variety of habitats including meadowlands and rocky hillsides. It’s most active at night, when it’s slithering ... 28 Comments

I have a pet corn snake. She's 15 and her name is NoodleThey also make great pets, but are quite the escape artists. Ours escaped several times and we couldn't find her ...This guy waits all year for candy corn season. It's his time to shine!

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t’s mountain nyala (Tragelaphus buxtoni) Monday! This Ethiopian native lives in montane forests, shrublands, and grasslands, where it feeds on heath plants, leaves, grasses, and legumes. It’s one of the larger antelope species, reaching over 4 feet (1.2 meters) at ... 9 Comments

American Museum of Natural History The Museum is open Wednesday-Sunday, 10 am-5:30 pm. For more details, visit here: https://www.amnh.org/plan-your-visit I've seen the museum in May 2009, Memorial Day, if I'm not wrong.What big horns you have.

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Why hello there! Meet the Spot-backed Puffbird (Nystalus maculatus). It’s native to woodlands and savannas in parts of eastern and central South America, such as Argentina and Brazil. Did you know? There are around 36 different species of puffbirds that ... 11 Comments

Oh the beautiful variations of Nature ‼️The spots on its body make me remember the chitah/leopard!This bird is very nice and very beautiful and I love it

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Neither birds nor bats, pterosaurs were reptiles, close cousins of dinosaurs who evolved on a separate branch of the reptile family tree. They were also the first animals after insects to evolve powered flight—not just leaping or gliding, but flapping ... 7 Comments

Eudimorphodon was a pterosaur that was discovered in 1973 by Mario Pandolfi in the town of Cene, Italy and described ...Pterosaurs are actually my favorite fossils over dinosaurs.Quite beautiful, in hindsight.

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While most land mammals use their legs to get around, the white-handed gibbon (Hylobates lar) relies mostly on its upper limbs! Using its long arms and strong fingers, it swings through trees with grace and speed—a method of movement called ... 14 Comments

I loved watching the gibbons at the zoo when i was little. They are so graceful (and seem to really ...If my apartment gets any messier, I'm going to have to start practicing brachiation too to get around.Talk about upper body strength!! Cool!!

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The evolution of a star is governed primarily by its mass. A star’s mass determines its nuclear fusion rate, and thus its luminosity (energy output) and its life expectancy. We define four broad mass categories (low-mass, intermediate-mass, high-mass, and very-high-mass), ... 8 Comments

Stunning picture. What treasures Hubble is opening up to us.A fabulous photo!Not “A Start is Born” but many real stars 🌟

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It’s the Pink-necked Green-pigeon (Treron vernans)—try saying that common name three times fast! The colorful bird can be found throughout Southeast Asia, including parts of Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam. It lives in forest habitats, where it hangs out in small ... 35 Comments

American Museum of Natural History Hello, sadly I missed this years Isaac Asimov Memorial Debate. Will it be published somewhere ...A vision in pastels! Lovely bird!A beautiful Bird! Thank you so much for sharing!

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Can you spot the grumpy face of the reef stonefish (Synanceia verrucosa)? It’s one of the most venomous fish in the ocean. This master of disguise lives in Indo-Pacific waters, where it tends to lay low on the seafloor, blending ... 17 Comments

I thought it was sea flowers. Was looking for a super tiny fish.I remember when I first visited El Nido, Palawan. Before my trip, I started seeing news about people dying because ...Great camouflage

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Zoom into this photo to get a closer look at the speckled pattern on the Star-spotted Nightjar (Caprimulgus stellatus). Can you see where it gets its name? In the wild, this bird can be found in parts of eastern Africa, ... 20 Comments

At first I read that as "star-spangled nightjar" and I thought, "who now?" 😂😂Beautiful little bird.Stunningly gorgeous 😍

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Fun fact: the klipspringer’s (Oreotragus oreotragus) hooves are about the diameter of a dime! On average, this tiny antelope only grows about 2 feet (0.6 meters) tall and weighs 30 pounds (13.6 kilograms). But don’t let its small stature fool ... 9 Comments

American Museum of Natural History As a reminder, the Museum is now open with important updates to days of operation (10 am - 5:30 pm, ...There's a mobile home park in Midwest City, Oklahoma with some interesting street names. I used to deliver pizzas there ...klipspringer, try to say that ten times real fast.

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This Fossil Friday, meet Centrosaurus apertus! Centrosaurus lived in the Late Cretaceous, about 75 million years ago. It had a large horn over its nose, small horns over the eyes, and a relatively short frill. This impressive specimen was uncovered ... 31 Comments

American Museum of Natural History + A close up beauty shot!I do love this display. Out of curiosity, what percentage of the bones on this one are real? That info ...

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Meet the Blue-billed Malimbe (Malimbus nitens)! It’s native to parts of western Africa, including Senegal and Sierra Leone, where it lives in forest, swamp, and mangrove habitats. Males and females have a similar appearance: both have black plumage, a pale ... 3 Comments

Pretty bird.I. Like. Jackie. 😀

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Join scientists from the International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP) for a panel discussion of different moments in the history of Earth's climate–from the extinction of the dinosaurs, to different ice ages–that shed light on the current climatic moment, and its ... 5 Comments

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New research alert! Have you ever wondered where the first organic molecules on Earth came from or how they originated? A recent study led by the Museum and funded by NASA proposes a possible answer: Earth’s first organic molecules may ... 13 Comments

American Museum of Natural History Read more about the details of this groundbreaking research in our latest blog post: https://bit.ly/32CEd93

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What primate has a silvery mane, a pink face, and a dog-like snout? The Hamadryas baboon (Papio hamadryas)! It can be spotted in parts of Ethiopia, Saudi Arabia, or Yemen, where it inhabits scrubland, grassland, and steppes. This baboon lives ... 15 Comments

Love that rock star hair!!I saw a group of them on my way to medinah in saudi arabia. Up until then i had no ...He looks so pensive.

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