Archiv der Kategorie: Blogposts in English

Visiting Historyland Part I: The Southern Mammoth

Publiziert am 20. November 2023 von Markus Bühler

Earlier this year, I made a trip to the Netherlands. One of my points of interest was Historyland in Hellevoetsluis, which is located western of Rotterdam. Historyland is an educational theme park which mainly focuses on different historic subjects, from … Weiterlesen →

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Snap-shots of a Live Foodchain – The Seagull that caught a Garfish with a Sprat in its Mouth

Publiziert am 18. November 2022 von Markus Bühler

We all know depictions of food chains and food webs from books or museums, which show how small herbivores or planctivores are eaten by larger predators which are again eaten by even larger predators. But it´s incredibly rare to see … Weiterlesen →

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The weird little whales that hide within a cloud of their gut fluid

Publiziert am 3. November 2019 von Markus Bühler

Many animals have developed amazing anti-predator adaptions, from mimicry to the ability to autotomize certain parts of their own bodies. One of the most bizarre defense mechanisms among mammals is found in the two exant members of the genus Kogia, … 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

Reconstructing Basilosaurus, the cetacean Sea Serpent

Publiziert am 1. Februar 2019 von Markus Bühler

Basilosaurus was just big in the news when a new study about its feeding habits and the predation on young Dorudons was published. This is probably a good time to feature a new reconstruction of the „king lizard“ that I … Weiterlesen →

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Picture of the Day: Mammalodon vs. giant Nautilid

Publiziert am 17. Dezember 2018 von Markus Bühler

Today I want to feature some paleoart by Dominic Grabowski, which depicts the archaic stem-baleen whale Mammalodon attacking one of those awesome but little-known giant post-creataceous nautilids. I feel really honoured that this was directly inspired by my recent blogpost … Weiterlesen →

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The Huchen – Salmonid King of the Danube

Publiziert am 25. November 2018 von Markus Bühler

If you are interested in unusual freshwater fish, you have possibly heard about the taimen (Hucho taimen), a very large predatory salmonid which lives in remote parts of Mongolia, Russia and some other areas of North Asia. This species was … Weiterlesen →

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When Giant Tunas roamed the Baltic Sea

Publiziert am 17. November 2018 von Markus Bühler

In terms of zoological diversity, the Baltic Sea is probably the most boring sea of the world. It has the lowest salinity of all seas and it is only connected with one other sea, the North Sea. As a result … Weiterlesen →

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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 →

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