Are horses native to North America?? Yes! And also, no!

#horse #horses #wildlife #nature #animal #animals #history #naturalhistory

Mushrooms from ‘Atlas des champignons comestibles et vénéneux’ by Joseph Roques. Paris: V. Masson, 1864.

#naturalhistory #mushroomart #mycology #mushrooms

Governments & organizations rely on biodiversity data to make decisions about land use, agriculture, & environmental protection. Digitized data ensures those decisions are based on solid evidence. #communityscience #communityscientist #naturalhistory #scienceforall #scistarter #scienceforeveryone

Black and White image of a Big Horn Sheep in a museum diorama (1939, AMNH).

Day 2: Mood

(Big Horn Sheep, Hall of North American Mammals, January, 1939. Image by Charles H. Coles, @amnh.org Special Collections, Photographic Negative Collection). #museum #amnh #ungulates #bighornsheep #naturalhistory #science

A blue hardcover book titled "An Annotated Catalog of the Halictid Bees of the Western Hemisphere" with a yellow, rectangular magnet on top. The magnet reads "GIVE MY REPRINTS and", followed by a checkbook for "all" or "most", "of my money to: Natural History Literature Rescue, good old paper dot org."

So excited to find these two books from the Natural History Literature Rescue in my mailbox today! NHLR keeps books and other literature out of the trash and in the hands of folks who can use them. Adopt a book and/or send them your books! goodoldpaper.org
#naturalhistory #goodoldpaper #literature 🧪

A pink Fluorite with a cool crystal habit! The crystal starts octahedral yet finishes with a Cubic flourish Picasso would adore! Lupita Mine, Mexico. 🧪 #cubist #fluorite #geology #artgallery #pink #minerals #naturalhistory #earthscience #picasso #cubic #macro #macrophoto #museums #mineralspecimens

Megasoma anubis (female) from 'Magasin de zoologie' by Félix Édouard Guérin-Méneville. Paris, Lequien fils, 1836.

#Magasindezoologie #FélixÉdouardGuérinMéneville #naturalhistory #sciart #beetleart

Power. Wealth. Success. Fame. Redefined by the ways of nature

Redefining our words to create new worlds
#Ecology #NaturalHistory #Poetry

Power. Wealth. Success. Fame. - by Bryan Pfeiffer
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The buff-tailed bumblebee with a unique buzz that benefits our fruit trees. #bees #conservation #ecology #science #naturalhistory

Common kestrel (Falco tinnunculus) by Ambrosius Gabler from 'Naturgeschichte der Vögel Deutschlands in getreuen Abbildungen und Beschreibungen' by Johann Wolf. Nürnberg: Frauenholz, 1805.

University of Chicago Special Collections.

#kestrel #Falcotinnunculus #birdart #naturalhistory #sciart

Hoverflies in Historical Books part 1 Exploration of hoverflies within historical books & manuscripts, examining the scientific understanding each portrayed or intended.

📚 Hoverflies in Historical Books P1 🔍

Join me to discover more as I leaf through dusty shelves in search of hidden wonders.👇
#Hoverflies #Flies #Insects #Syrphidae #Booksky #ArtHistory #NatureIllustration #NaturalHistory #HiddenWonders #HistSci #Scicomm #Naturewriting
@jillwhitelock.bsky.social

PELOROVIS , from the video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSME... I made for the ❄️Quaternary Period❄️ relative to modern Buffalos #iceage #pelorvis #aeonflux #naturalhistory #paleoart

The Beauty and Biology of Egg Color From the Summer 2017 issue of Living Bird magazine. Subscribe now. Fish do it. Frogs do it. Even insects lay eggs with color. But birds do it best. Only birds produce eggs in such a wide range of ey...

Real bird eggs with real fantastic colors!
#NaturalHistory #Science #Birds #Biology

www.allaboutbirds.org/news/the-bea...

IT'S BOOK AUCTION DAY!
No reserve, antiquarian book auctions, ending from 8pm (UK time)

#antiquarian #history #books #rarebooks #bookhistory #earlymodern #travel #science #naturalhistory #religion #bookcollecting #bookauctions ebay.co.uk/str/wisdompe...

Physical specimens, handwritten notes, and field records can degrade or be lost. Digitization preserves this information permanently and protects it from damage. #wedigbio #biodiversity #communityscience #communityscientist #naturalhistory #science #scienceforall #scistarter #scienceforeveryone

Prairie starflower (Lithophragma bulbifera) at Ash Creek Wildlife Area, Modoc County CA.
#prairiestarflower #wildflowers #nature #naturalhistory

Eggs from 'Catalogue of the collection of birds' eggs in the British museum (Natural history)' by William Robert Ogilvie-Grant. London: Printed by order of the Trustees, 1901-12.

#scientificillustration #naturalhistory #birdseggs #eggart #eggs

📣 Just one week to go! 📣

SAVE 50% on over 70 books in our Easter Sale by using code EASTER50 at the checkout 📚️

View the full collection here ➡️ https://tinyurl.com/4s5cxzac

#booksale #sale #books #eastersale #specialoffer #wildlife #ecology #naturalhistory

The blog post author collects data in the field with a partner, shortly before being stung by a bee. Photo by Brooke Bailey.

Today's edition of my Ecology Lab's #NaturalHistory blog series: Karl, a somewhat reluctant naturalist, faces his fear of "knife flies" head on by choosing to study #pollinators in his final project hmcbee.blogspot.com/2026/04/how-... @hmc.edu

Digital records help monitor changes over time-such as shifts caused by climate change, habitat loss, or invasive species. This allows for predicting future impacts. #wedigbio #biodiversity #communityscience #naturalhistory #science #scienceforall #scistarter #scienceforeveryone #fieldmuseum

A new issue of Transactions is out now! With content from "Making Nature: The Labor of Natural History," a 2024 conference held at the
@amphilsociety.bsky.social

Read more on Project MUSE: muse.jhu.edu/issue/56584.

#naturalhistory #labor

Mythical creatures from Konrad von Megenberg’s ‘Buch der natur.’ Augsburg: Johannes Bämler, second ed, 1478.

I saw this book at McGill Library.

#Buchdernatur #naturalhistory #incunabula #historyofbooks #rarebooks

Coats of arms of each map I made so far of different or geologial periods: #Permian, #Triassic, #Jurassic, #Cretaceous and #Paleogene 🛡️ Can you guess which animal is represented on each one? 👀 #heraldry #medievalart #paleontology #prehistoricanimals #naturalhistory #dinosaurs

📚💙 Meet the Neighbors #booksky #bookrecs #nature #naturalhistory #biology #youngreaders #LibbyReads #booklovers

Animals of Irish Name and Origin, a new book by Aga Grandowicz, is available in all good bookstores nationwide.

#AnimalsOfIrishNameBook #IrishWildlife #NatureIllustration #Irishanimals #IrishHeritage #NaturalHistory

Eight journals grouped on a table, they all relate to a natural history subject.

Eight journals grouped on a table, they all relate to a natural history subject.

Six journals grouped on a table, they all relate to a natural history subject.

Eight journals grouped on a table, they all relate to a natural history subject.

New additions to our library book collections 🎉

⬆️Learn more about our collections and how to visit us via the link in our bio.

#NaturalHistoryMuseum #ModernCollections #Booksky #NaturalHistory #Science

Illustration of five brilliantly colored tragopan heads, with backswept horns and elaborate wattles. The birds are mostly dark orange, with black, blue, and green accents.

And they say the dinosaurs went extinct... tragopan wattles, from A Monograph of the Pheasants by William Beebe, 1918. #birds #oldbooks #rarebooks #naturalhistory

A staged scene of a stuffed lion mother with her cub lounging on one of her rear legs. Scene behind glass at a small natural history museum.

This little guy has a devilish twinkle in his eyes. It’s a shame that in order to create this charming scene a mother and cub presumably had to be killed.

#Lion
#LionCub
#Taxidermy
#StuffedLion
#Photography
#CheekyChappy
#NaturalHistory

Have moose ever been domesticated??

#wildlife #animal #animals #moose #nature #history #naturalhistory #science #stem

OVIRAPTOROSAURIA, from the video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=6I98... I dedicated to these redeemed theropods 🥚 #gigantoraptor #paleoart #dinosaurs #oviraptors #beibeilong #naturalhistory #anzu