Oct 31 - more Natural History Museum

A quick note about yesterday's blog videos.  If you could not see them, I have fixed that problem.  It was a sharing restriction that had to be taken off.

Hi

This morning I did yesterday's blog.  I had some time this afternoon, so I went back to the Natural History Museum.

First, I'll hit all of the displays I missed earlier in the Hinze Hall, which is the main entrance gallery.

Palasite Meteorite

Ancient Banded Rock

Fossil Trees

In my Oct 23rd post, I included a picture of the Blue Whale skeleton that is hanging in Hintze Hall.  So I think I've covered that hall pretty well.

From the Hintze Hall, I moved into the Mammals and Whales section.  Here's a Gray Whale skeleton with a full sized replica of a Blue Whales behind,

And we think the Gray Whales are big when we see them off of Madrona Point!

Here's 3 different species of elephants showing the differing tusk arrangements.  Note that the middle one one has 4 tusks, 2 on top & 2 more out of the lower jaw bone. 

One more set of tusks, the largest.  (Note that the Blue Whale is still behind)

I'm skipping around - now into the 'Weird Fish" display in the next room 

Into the Mollusks now. Here's one of the cabinets.  Too many reflections on the cabinet glass

A close-up of the upper left item in the previous post

That is weird!

One more display of weird fish

The Mud Skipper is kind of cute - in a fishy sort of way

At this point I circled back into the Dinosaurs, since the crowd was thinning out

A couple of nasty guys

Edmontosaurus

You're from Edmonton, Ian.  Any relation?

Here is the reason the Dinosaur exhibit is so popular:  

Have a watch:  Ty Rex

At the other end of the display are a couple of cuter Dinos

That's it for the pictures of cute dinosaurs.

The founder of this museum is Sir Richard Owen, and the architect was Alfred Waterhouse.  On the way out I noticed some details the above gentlemen included in the building's stonework.

No doubt there are many more - and probably a website somewhere telling all about it.

That's it for today.  Tomorrow is a horribly early (04:45) wake up to get the Eurostar to Paris for the day.  It will be a long day and late night, so no guarantees for the next post.

Greg