Fossil Fish & Assorted Marine Beasts
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Fossil Fish, Marine Reptiles, Whales, and other Sea Monsters.
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The 370,000-square-foot Science Museum of Minnesota is in St. Paul, Minnesota. The current location has been open since 1999. It houses a space for travelling exhibitions and five permanent galleries covering the topics of paleontology, physical science and technology, the human body, peoples and cultures of the Missis...
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Tiny Jurrasic fossil lizard head photographed through a microscope. The original is about 12mm long.
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- Tharsis dubius, CM 4716 (fossil fish), 5.4 gigapixel image created from 22,610 photographs by Gene Cooper
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A fossil of the fish species Tharsis dubius from the Upper Jurassic (~150 million-year-old) Solnhofen Formation of Germany, housed in the Vertebrate Paleontology collection at Carnegie Museum of Natural History (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania). The image shown here was created as part of the Explorable Microscopy project ...
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Upper Jurassic, Kimmeridgian, Reebe formation, Liaoning Province, Manchuria, N.E. China. This fin is about 10mm (0.4 in) long. The whole fish is 85mm. You can see it here: www.byteswithbite.co.uk/kilgore/org/misc/fullfish.jpg
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This pano is the result of an evening's play with Chris's Brunel MX1 stereo 20...-
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This sperm whale skeleton is on display in the Whaling Museum of the Nantucket Historical Association. It came from a 46 foot long bull sperm whale that beached on Jan 1, 1998 at Sconset's Low Beach. Many Nantucketers participated in the messy process of extracting and preparing the bones for display. Tools from t...
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This three metre long ichthyosaur (fossil marine reptile) was discovered in December 2009 and, following gaining permissions, was extracted in early January 2010 from Broad Ledge, to the east of Lyme Regis. Preparation was complete by the end of July 2010. The ichthyosaur is almost certainly Leptopterygius tenuirostri...
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The centerpiece of the Sternberg Museum of Natural History (www.fhsu.edu/sternberg
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The geology gallery explores the rich local fossils and the extraordinary history of science behind their early discovery and study. Mary Anning and the Anning family of Lyme Regis, plays a central part of this story.
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A wall in the Prehistoric Journey exhibit at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science highlighting the giant predator fish Xiphactinus audax, as well as other fishes, a mosasaur (Platycarpus caryphaeus), an icthyosaur (Stenopterygius quadriscissus), and a sea turtle (Protostega gigas).
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A whale skeleton which is on display on the second floor of the science building at Portland State University. There are other very interesting skeletons on display such as a Grizzley bear, Zebra, Lion, Python etc. I took this photograph with a Canon G9 utilizing a Gigapan robot and stitched it with the Gigapan 4.386...
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