Natural history museum NYC

[Notidanodon]

Popped into a rainy day at the museum the other day at the New York natural history museum, a great collection and worth visiting, I also popped into the temporary butterfly Vivarium as I don’t only like dead things in rocks

entrance

african mammals hall

Some of the Polynesian stuff was incredible, imagine one of these with fossil shark teeth I might have to make one!

huge hadrosaur footprint

nice coelacanth skeleton

some more fossils in the collections section

bugs are very interesting to me but didn’t have time to see the main collection today!

 

then I made it into my favourite vertebrate hall, starting with pterosaurs, mostly casts but still cool

[pachy-pleuro-whatnot-odon]

snarge! That entrance hall is impressive! Beautiful photograph too, the way you framed it! And check out the horns on those rhinos! I don't think I've ever seen ones that tall...!

[North]

22 minutes ago, pachy-pleuro-whatnot-odon said:

snarge! That entrance hall is impressive! Beautiful photograph too, the way you framed it! And check out the horns on those rhinos! I don't think I've ever seen ones that tall...!

I think those are white rhinos. Its fascinating how long and thin those horns are.

[Randyw]

58 minutes ago, North said:

I think those are white rhinos. Its fascinating how long and thin those horns are.

Those are black rhinos. You can tell looking at the front of the mouth. The black rhino has a pointed kind of prehensile front lip where the white rhino has a broad wide lips. The name white rhino is actually a corruption of the Africans word wyde describing the lip. White rhinos are grazers where black rhinos are more picky about their diets wich is why the lips developed differently. Because the white rhino has a broader snout their horns are thicker and heavier where the black rhino has longer more slender horns. I could go on about the differences but I’ve probably bored you enough.

great pictures! Thank you for sharing!

[pachy-pleuro-whatnot-odon]

1 hour ago, Randyw said:

Those are black rhinos. You can tell looking at the front of the mouth. The black rhino has a pointed kind of prehensile front lip where the white rhino has a broad wide lips. The name white rhino is actually a corruption of the Africans word wyde describing the lip. White rhinos are grazers where black rhinos are more picky about their diets wich is why the lips developed differently. Because the white rhino has a broader snout their horns are thicker and heavier where the black rhino has longer more slender horns. I could go on about the differences but I’ve probably bored you enough.

great pictures! Thank you for sharing!

 

You didn't bore me at all. Quite fascinating, actually! Never knew that! Thanks!

[North]

2 hours ago, Randyw said:

Those are black rhinos. You can tell looking at the front of the mouth. The black rhino has a pointed kind of prehensile front lip where the white rhino has a broad wide lips. The name white rhino is actually a corruption of the Africans word wyde describing the lip. White rhinos are grazers where black rhinos are more picky about their diets wich is why the lips developed differently. Because the white rhino has a broader snout their horns are thicker and heavier where the black rhino has longer more slender horns. I could go on about the differences but I’ve probably bored you enough.

great pictures! Thank you for sharing!

You are right, I used wrong traslation.

In my language its large or wide lip rhino (white) and bush or thin lip  rhino (black).

 

So, thats where the english name originates from.

Edited August 21 by North

[Shellseeker]

13 hours ago, Notidanodon said:

Popped into a rainy day at the museum the other day at the New York natural history museum, a great collection and worth visiting, I also popped into the temporary butterfly Vivarium as I don’t only like dead things in rocks

 

Thank you, ... a trip down memory lane... Starting when I was 6,  My father would take my 3 sisters and I to the MNH in NYC,  the Bronx Zoo, and the Yale Peabody MNH.  3 Fantastic summer days every year.  I really loved the dioramas , especially the African plains.... 

[Notidanodon]

On 8/21/2024 at 9:46 AM, Shellseeker said:

Thank you, ... a trip down memory lane... Starting when I was 6,  My father would take my 3 sisters and I to the MNH in NYC,  the Bronx Zoo, and the Yale Peabody MNH.  3 Fantastic summer days every year.  I really loved the dioramas , especially the African plains.... 

I’ve got more to show   i plan on visiting the Yale Peabody museum soon!

[Notidanodon]

Some more fossils from the vertebrates hall, tiktaalik is a very interesting animal in terms of its role in vertebrate evolution, have a research if you haven’t  

this Meg jaw is always a sight to behold

[Notidanodon]

Some more stunning fish! They have dissolved some of the famous Brazilian nodules to reveal some very interesting details, I want to try it now!

 

you could see all the shrimp in this ones Stomach

this one is crazy!

 

one from my home state, I really want to go looking for one of these one day

mega fish!

 

the famous dunkleosteus

and a great multiplate

 

[Mochaccino]

Amazing museum, and was my favorite place to visit ever since I was a child. You can spend all day there and not even see half of it. If only I had started fossil collecting earlier I would've paid more attention to the fossils.