What I learned last week at the American Museum of Natural History (Bonus)

Hmm…

Is it me or do you get the feeling…

That there might be…

A Little Mermaid Cover Art situation going on here?

Do you see it? Getting warmer…

What I learned last week at the American Museum of Natural History (Closeout)

Ancient humans lived in “bone houses!” (Hey now! <wink>)

 

Walruses get tummy aches.

That baby sea lion is just “resting.”

And they have a life-sized Blue Whale that is so big they actually had to bend it to make it fit.

P.S. They also have a life-sized millipede apparently from Skull Island.

P.P.S. Holy Crap! I googled Skull island. There are tons of them!  I think it’s time to plan my King Kong world tour.

What I learned last week at the American Museum of Natural History (Part 5)

Quite literally.

This was one of my favorite displays.

Different scenarios of people right at the moment before they get bitten by a snake.

Especially the guy who steps on one.

But the  pièce de résistance is a life sized child.

Who has just been bitten.

Waiting to die.

What I learned last week at the American Museum of Natural History (Extra Credit)

Someone in the comments section asked if they had a Polar Bear. They do and from a distance it looks like he’s got a little friend.

But as you get closer…

You see something gone terribly wrong.

 

What I learned last week at the American Museum of Natural History (Part 4)

Jack rabbits are hilarious.

They have Voldermort’s skull.

T.Rex’s arms were even tinier than I realized.

The one on the left might have been runover.

And if it looks like it’s melting, it’s an alligator.

What I learned last week at the American Museum of Natural History (Part 3)

Although the exotic birds get really nice dioramas with painted backgrounds…

 

(I think this one’s eating an apple.)

 

(And these guys are on an Easter Egg hunt.)

… The local birds? Not so much.

Same with the Mammals.

These look like they’re getting arrested.

What I learned last week at the American Museum of Natural History (Part 2)

Africa. Has a shit-ton of deer.

Honorable mention.

What I learned last week at the American Museum of Natural History

The dioramas have a flair for the dramatic

Yup that’s a moose mid-stab on another moose.

 

When I came upon this display I thought there was a mistake because I saw the lynx but no rabbit even though both were listed.  But all you gotta do is follow the paw prints, just like that cat is doing…

 

Swim faster little Turt!
This one might be my favorite although it was in pitch black almost. Just like those old timey sea monster pictures.

This one I’m not so sure about. Am I to believe that this early man didn’t notice the cave with five hyenas behind him? How stealthy can hyenas be anyway when they’re always laughing all the time. What the hell is he bending down for at this inopportune moment? Not to tie his shoelaces.