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June 1st is World Reef Day! Here are some vintage travel posters with artwork featuring underwater scenes of the Great Barrier Reef.
May 31st is World Parrot Day!
To celebrate, here are two cockatoos seen at the recent Majolica Mania exhibition at the Walters Art Museum:
May 23rd is World Turtle Day! This tortoise painting was an interesting find in the British portraiture rooms at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Even the signage acknowledges how unusual it is!
May 20th is World Bee Day! This is the perfect excuse to share this dress…
The 3rd Friday of May is Endangered Species Day. Although Vincent Van Gogh (Dutch, 1853-1890) never traveled outside of Europe, he painted at least two different animals from faraway lands…
Happy World Binturong Day, celebrated annually on the 2nd Saturday in May! This watercolor of a Binturong is from the William Farquhar Collection of Natural History Drawings…
Fauna: Koala (Phascolarctos cinereus) (Reminder: not really a bear! It’s a marsupial.)Flora: Western Wooden Pear (Xylomelum occidentale) (Also not a true pear.) While Marianne North is primarily known as a pioneering botanical artist of the nineteenth century, many of her paintings include native fauna as well. Her life’s work of…
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April 26th is Audubon Day. Included in Audubon’s Birds of America collection are illustrations of 5 birds that would soon after become extinct, along with 3 others that are now also feared extinct.
Maria Sibylla Merian’s image of a Murine Mouse Opossum (aka Merian’s Opossum and Linnaeus’ Opossum) from Suriname is unusual in that it appears to be the only mammal she ever depicted in her work…
It was on this day (21 February) in 1918 that the last known Carolina Parakeet, Incas, died at the Cincinnati Zoo – tragically, in the same cage the last known Passenger Pigeon, Martha, had died only four years earlier. (Even worse, unlike Martha, whose body was sent to the Smithsonian…
