As biologist and natural-history TV presenter Mike Dilger makes clear, our invasive-species problem has arrived courtesy of many carriers. ❋ Unknown (2012)
This week's victim was a camel, an animal too ugly and too common to have been featured in any previous natural-history film and consequently one that people like me know next to nothing about. ❋ Unknown (2011)
But while wildlife is at the core of our brand, NGC actually has had only a small percentage of natural-history programming among the diverse topics that we have covered. ❋ Unknown (2010)
For a sustained dose of inspiration toward that end, a would-be naturalist can fill a Kindle with enough 99-cent natural-history classics—by Charles Darwin, Alfred Russel Wallace, Henry Walter Bates and Alexander von Humboldt—to last years. ❋ Jennie Erin Smith (2011)
What you won't know from the preview is that you'll sweat through uncomfortably long stretches of natural-history footage that do nothing to move the story forward. ❋ Avital Binshtock (2011)
Believing that natural-history books often provided inaccurate drawings of large quadrupeds like zebras, the self-taught artist devoted his leisure time to making portraits of his own. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Dave Madden's engagingly offbeat study, "The Authentic Animal," lets us in on the bizarre and sometimes repellent world of taxidermy from its earliest beginnings legend has it that the Medicis kept a mounted rhinoceros as part of their natural-history collection in Florence to the present. ❋ Elizabeth Lowry (2011)
Finally, there are the books and manuscript catalogs, which cater to any interest imaginable: On the natural-history front, we have lately seen the spectacular bird books of James Audubon and John Gould. ❋ Henrik Bering (2011)
Hayes drawing of a tarantula A number of men stationed with the British East India Co. became collectors of natural-history art. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Harder to find are the obscure gems of natural-history writing contained in "The Essential Naturalist" Chicago, 534 pages, $39 , a collection of lost or dimly remembered articles unearthed by the book's assiduous editors. ❋ Jennie Erin Smith (2011)
John Reeves collection A drawing of an Asian Leopard cat, from the 1820s John Reeves arrived in Canton, China, in 1812 as an assistant tea inspector for the British East India Co. and soon began commissioning andcollecting natural-history illustrations. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Ms. Russell chose monumental installations that embody all four of her themes to introduce and conclude the show—Mr. Monkman's "Théâtre de Cristal" and, in the final gallery, Dunne-Za Nation artist Brian Jungen's endearing yet conceptually complex "Cetology" 2002, a ceiling-suspended, 41-foot whale skeleton, uncannily constructed from plastic pieces of common lawn chairs and intended to evoke not only natural-history displays but also contemporary ecological concerns. ❋ Lee Rosenbaum (2012)
On Tuesday, Sotheby's will hold its first natural-history auction in Paris, anchored by a 33-foot-long skeleton of an Allosaurus, the older, smaller cousin to the Tyrannosaurus Rex that roamed North America roughly 150 million years ago. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Rather than the eternal present that natural-history museum dioramas suggest, many of the works here look to the past, whether with nostalgia, regret or a mixture of both, or to a surreal alternative present. ❋ Kristin M. Jones (2011)
Homeowner Joseph Sisca Jr., an avid hunter, says it's his very own natural-history museum. ❋ Maya Pope-Chappell (2011)
In her new book "Art and Nature" Greystone Books, 2011, Judith Magee provides a continent-by-continent survey of the development of natural-history art over the past 300 years, drawing from the vast collections of the Library of the Natural History Museum in London. ❋ Unknown (2011)
New Yorkers wouldn't allow the [wildfire] to take their Museum of Natural History (or library, or art museum) from them, even if it was getting replaced by a building with more space, and New York has added lots of people since [the museum] was built, so why would people from other cities allow someone to take their museum and [tear it down], even if they were convinced that something bigger and better would replace it, or that they needed a space that wasn't outdated and old, in favor of something new? ❋ The Original Agahnim (2021)
The Museum of Natural History will always face the adversity of being threatened with wildfire (and so far is still standing strong in it's face), but New Yorkers know how to tell [a wildfire] to go fuck itself when a [new guard] tries to come in and walk all over what's already there and has been around the block a few times, [or what's] left of what was already there if some things have already been taken. ❋ The Original Agahnim (2021)
