Archiv des Autors: Markus Bühler

The shoulder horn of Dürer´s marvelous Rhinocerus – revealing a 501 year old mystery beast

Publiziert am 12. Juni 2016 von Markus Bühler

The woodcut of Albrecht Dürer´s „Rhinocerus“ is certainly one of the most iconic animal depictions of the Renaissance. Dating from 1515, a time when books about natural history still usually showed wild mixes of real animals and fully fantastic beings … Weiterlesen →

Veröffentlicht unter Blogposts in English, Kryptozoologie, Populäre Irrtümer, Säugetiere | 6 Kommentare

Photo of the day: Goliath frog skeleton

Publiziert am 11. Juni 2016 von Markus Bühler

Today´s photo of the day shows a skeleton of a goliath frog (Conraua goliath) from the zoological collection at Heidelberg:

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Anglerfish on ice

Publiziert am 5. Juni 2016 von Markus Bühler

Besides strange flatfish, the fish market at Mahón had also a lot of other interesting species on display, like several monkfish (Piscatorius lophius), including one of the very largest specimens I have ever seen. I covered monkfish already some times … Weiterlesen →

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Photo of the day: Lepidorhombus boscii

Publiziert am 5. Juni 2016 von Markus Bühler

Fish markets can be a great opportunity to see animals you will hardly ever see in any zoo aquarium or in TV. Alcohol specimens in museum collection are often already far away from their original life appearance, because the tissue … Weiterlesen →

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Photo of the day: Ghastly tenrec taxidermy

Publiziert am 2. Juni 2016 von Markus Bühler

For some reason tenrecs are especially prone to become extremely ghastly taxidermy specimens, at least if you look at the older ones. I just planned to cover them on occasion on the blog. So here is a specimens I saw … Weiterlesen →

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Of sea monsters and cetacean weirdness – here´s the skeleton of a long-finned pilot whale

Publiziert am 19. Mai 2016 von Markus Bühler

Based on the recent discovery of an alleged „monster“ on a British beach, I decided to post a photo of a long-finned pilot whale´s skeleton from the zoological museum Hamburg. First of all, because that´s exactly what this purported monster … Weiterlesen →

Veröffentlicht unter Anatomie, Blogposts in English, Kryptozoologie, Wale | 2 Kommentare

Starting into the herpetology season part III: On the track of green lizards

Publiziert am 12. Mai 2016 von Markus Bühler

Green lizards are not only the largest but also surely the most flamboyant lacertids of central Europe. Besides this, they are also the rarest kind of lizards here around, with only a few handful of often quite local populations. Fortunately, … Weiterlesen →

Veröffentlicht unter Naturbeobachtungen, Reptilien | 2 Kommentare

Starting into the herpetology season part II: Orgiastic toad balls

Publiziert am 13. April 2016 von Markus Bühler

Mass gatherings of mating common toads (Bufo bufo) are probably among the most spectacular herpetological phenomens you can see among European amphibians. It is really an incredibly sight to see dozens or even hundreds of this usually quite solitary anurans … Weiterlesen →

Veröffentlicht unter Amphibien, Naturbeobachtungen | 3 Kommentare

Starting into the herpetology season part I: Newts are coming

Publiziert am 5. April 2016 von Markus Bühler

After the last entry spontaneously disappeared due to a server problem (together with the draft of the next part of the series), I make a somewhat shortened second version to restore the first part again. So here are some photos … Weiterlesen →

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Under the hermit crab´s shell

Publiziert am 5. März 2016 von Markus Bühler

Hermit crabs are freaky and cool for many reasons. They live inside the external skeletons of dead snails to cover their misshapen abdomens, which they even sometimes plant with living anemones, they have some of the most extensive body assymetries … Weiterlesen →

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