Archiv der Kategorie: Anatomie

The Nightmare Look of Naked Owls – how Feathers Conceal a Bird´s True Shape

Publiziert am 2. Oktober 2020 von Markus Bühler

Today I want to show you one of the coolest bird specimens I have ever seen in a museum, a bodycast of a barn owl (Tyto alba) with removed feathers. This gives us a great opportunity to see the enormous … Weiterlesen →

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A tiny tusk within a broken tusk – just another narwhal oddity

Publiziert am 11. Oktober 2019 von Markus Bühler

The narwhal Monodon monoceros is almost a real-life fantasy creature. But not only due to its historical connection with the legendary unicorn – after all, a whale with an enormous tusk growing out of its head is much more fabulous … Weiterlesen →

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How Vanuatuan boars grow circle tusks that impale their own jaws

Publiziert am 12. Juli 2019 von Markus Bühler

I wrote some time ago about zoological treasures in archeological, ethnological and historical museums. Today I want to share some quite interesting examples of such „treasures“ which I have seen in the Oceania exhibition of the Ethnological Museum of Berlin. … Weiterlesen →

Veröffentlicht unter Anatomie, Blogposts in English, Museen, Säugetiere, Teratologie | 4 Kommentare

The Narwhal´s lesser Tusk

Publiziert am 22. Oktober 2018 von Markus Bühler

I have seen a whole lot of narwhal tusks in museums, many skulls of narwhals (Monodon monoceros), some fully mounted narwhal skeletons and even several specimens with  double tusks. But so far I have never ever seen the vestigal right … Weiterlesen →

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Curiosity of the Day: Whale bone chairs

Publiziert am 15. Oktober 2017 von Markus Bühler

Today´s curiosity of the day are chairs made of whale bones. The first one is constructed of two large cervical vertebrae and apparantly pieces of ribs for the chair legs. It is exhibited in the Zoological Museum at Copenhagen, Denmark. … Weiterlesen →

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No, there was no gorilla arm found on an Irish beach (Spoiler: it´s from a seal)

Publiziert am 29. September 2017 von Markus Bühler

At the moment there is a strange story in the news, about an alleged gorilla arm which was found on a beach in Kilkee, Ireland. You can read the original story here. The photo in the article shows the grisly-looking, … Weiterlesen →

Veröffentlicht unter Anatomie, Populäre Irrtümer, Säugetiere | 2 Kommentare

Curiosity of the Day: Inuit tools made from Greenland shark teeth

Publiziert am 22. Juni 2017 von Markus Bühler

As I have a longlasting interest in ethnology and indigenous cultures, I decided to feature here some interesting man-made artifacts. Since this blog is mainly about animals, those objects will be of course zoology-themed. When I recently visited once again … Weiterlesen →

Veröffentlicht unter Anatomie, Curiosity of the Day, Ethnology, Fische, Haie und andere Knorpelfische | 4 Kommentare

Fossil of the day: Gnarly wooly rhino skull

Publiziert am 30. April 2017 von Markus Bühler

For today I have just a short fossil-of-the-day-post. It´s a close-up of the nasal and frontal area of of a wooly rhino´s skull from the Naturhistorisches Museum Mainz (natural history museum Mainz). You can see very well the highly textured … Weiterlesen →

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The spiny wing quills of the cassowary

Publiziert am 12. März 2017 von Markus Bühler

Cassowaries are unusual and weird by nearly every standard, but the general focus is mainly on their flamboyant heads and necks and their formidable foot claws. But there is just so much more noteworthy about them. For example their extraordinaire … Weiterlesen →

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A herring in the wolf´s clothing

Publiziert am 18. November 2016 von Markus Bühler

Today´s blogpost features another fish skull, this time a much smaller but yet pretty impressive one, which nearly looks like a miniature version of the giant cretaceous Xiphactinus. It belongs to a dorab wolf hering (Chirocentrus dorab), a member of … Weiterlesen →

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