Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam is set to open a pair of new animal-themed exhibitions, both running from 30 September 2022 – 15 January 2023: 1 CLARA THE RHINOCEROS –Clara was unfamiliar, impressively large, and strange to behold – in short, she was different from any other animal. Clara the Rhinoceros tells…
It’s National Lobster Day so I get to share one of my favorite Nazca ceramics! Such a unique piece infused with so much character…I mean just look at that face… ?
For #WorldHoneybeeDay here is another piece from the Majolica Mania exhibition at the Walters Art Museum:
Horseshoe crabs have been swimming in earth’s oceans for a long time…their fossil record goes back at least 480 million years! This card illustrates the Atlantic Horseshoe Crab (Limulus polyphemus), one of four still-living species and the only one native to the Americas.(Also, their common name is misleading — they…
It’s on my to-do list to try to identify all the different species scurrying around here. For now, I’ll just note that there is an imposter crustacean in the mix — Horseshoe Crabs (family Limulidae) aren’t true crabs, and aren’t even crustaceans. 😉 (They’re chelicerates, a whole different subphylum of arthropods…
