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Posted by kittymowmow in Conservation, Creepy Crawlies, Museums, Science & Tech, Wildlife on 03 5th, 2009 | No Comments

Butterfly’s mustache gives it away as a new species

Butterfly’s mustache gives it away as a new species
After nearly a century in the Natural History Museum collections, a new butterfly species has been discovered because of its mustache. A new butterfly species from the dry Magdalena valleys of Colombia has been discovered among the three million butterfly specimens at the Natural History Museum in London...
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Posted by kittymowmow in Extinct Species, Museums, Reptiles & Amphibians, Science & Tech, Wildlife on 01 29th, 2009 | No Comments

Ancient Wounds Reveal Triceratops Battles

How did the dinosaur Triceratops use its three horns? A new study led by Andrew Farke, curator at the Raymond M. Alf Museum of Paleontology, located on the campus of The Webb Schools, shows that the headgear was not just for looks. Battle scars on the skulls of Triceratops preserve rare evidence of...
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Posted by kittymowmow in Conservation, Endangered Species, Extinct Species, Mammals, Museums, Science & Tech, Wildlife on 01 23rd, 2009 | No Comments

Hair Of Tasmanian Tiger Yields Genes Of Extinct Species

Image via Wikipedia All the genes that the exotic Tasmanian Tiger inherited only from its mother will be revealed by an international team of scientists in a research paper to be published on 13 January 2009 in the online edition of Genome Research. The research marks the first successful sequencing...
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Posted by kittymowmow in Art, Birds, Cats, Culture, Mammals, Museums on 12 31st, 2008 | No Comments

Man accused of smuggling Egyptian animal mummies

An Australian man has been arrested at Cairo airport after security staff found ancient Egyptian animal mummies in his luggage, reports say. An airport official said the mummies of a cat and an ibis, a long-beaked bird, dated back to 300 BC. He said another 19 figurines of ancient Egyptian gods were...
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Posted by Tyler Quattlebaum in Museums, Science & Tech on 08 29th, 2008 | No Comments

First Prehistoric Pregnant Turtle And Nest Of Eggs Discovered In Southern Alberta

A 75-million-year-old fossil of a pregnant turtle and a nest of fossilized eggs that were discovered in the badlands of southeastern Alberta by scientists and staff from the University of Calgary and the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology are yielding new ideas on the evolution of egg-laying and...
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Posted by kittymowmow in Art, Creepy Crawlies, Museums on 04 24th, 2008 | No Comments

Giant insects invading arboretum

photo credit: Opo Terser Artist David Rogers builds insects that are roughly accurate in shape and proportion. But when it comes to size, he tosses authenticity out the window. Rogers is installing a collection of 15 bugs this week at the Morton Arboretum in Lisle. And their size—as big as a rhinoceros,...
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Posted by kittymowmow in Animals, Extinct Species, Mammals, Museums, Science & Tech, Wildlife on 03 18th, 2008 | 2 Comments

52-Million-Year-Old Bat Fossil and more than you could ever possibly want to know about bats!

Call me weird, but I love bats. They're a cool critter (hello, flying mammal with ecolocation), and I think they are sooooooooooo cute (some species are, at least). Cuteness on wings - for what more could I ask? -Kitty Mowmow photo credit: charliejb From The Leonard Lopate Show on WNYC: Researchers...
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