Photographed by Gail in AMNH Gift Shop
The Manhattan Skyline should be so gorgeous, amiright? You can buy these lamps in the gift shop at the Museum of Natural History on the Upper West Side!
New Photo Added September 9th, 2020!
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Favorite Extinct Placoderm: The Dunkleosteus
Argh, Scary Fish! (All Photos Taken By Gail at the American Museum of Natural History)
Placoderms were the earliest group of vertebrates to achieve widespread success as predators. During the 50-Million-Year span of the Devonian period, they diversified worldwide to become the dominant fishes of that time. But despite this success, they rapidly declined and became extinct toward the end of the Devonian.
Placoderms are characterized by heavy body armor covering the head and trunk regions. To me, it looks like a Tiger’s face with a Fish body. I like it.
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New Photo Added on the First Day of the Museum’s Reopening After Covid Lockdown: September 9th, 2020!
Hall of Mammals Dioramas, Museum of Natural History
The Tame Impala (All Photos By Gail)
I remember when I first saw the trailer for Night at the Museum, and I was so excited for the movie because it had long been a fantasy of mine to be in NYC’s Museum of Natural History after closing time to see if all of those animals in the nature dioramas might come to life. Just being serious.
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81st and Central Park West Subway Stop, Museum of Natural History
All Photos By Gail
If you happen to be on the NYC Subway, in transit to the American Museum of Natural History via the C Train, and you are not entirely sure which stop to get off at, don’t even worry about it. You will know when you are at the correct station (81st Street) when you see all kinds of colorful tile mosaic creatures crawling along the walls.
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Store Furniture Display with Nature Diorama
Photo By Gail
Geoffrey and I were meeting up at Sea Thai on North 6th Street in Williamsburg and I was a few minutes early, so I walked across the street to this cute furniture and design store to get out of the rain and texted him to meet me there.
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