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| blue whale natural history museum: Hope Richard Sabin, Lorraine Cornish, 2019-10-31 Hope is the new icon of the Natural History Museum, a stunning 9,000 pound, 82-foot-long blue whale skeleton. Suspended by steel wires and captured in a majestic swooping posture, her reconstruction is a work of art as well as a feat of engineering. Her story begins in 1891 when she was found beached off the coast of Ireland. A lucrative find for a local fisherman, her skeletal remains were sold to the Museum. The project to restore her took three years to complete, including 10 months of painstaking laboratory work to clean and repair each of her 221 bones. Combining the latest scientific research into the blue whale with behind-the-scenes imagery, this book sheds new light on the largest creature ever to have lived on Earth. |
| blue whale natural history museum: Hope the Whale Macmillan Children's Books, To Be Confirmed, 2022-02-17 Follow Hope the blue whale on her epic journey across the oceans, in this uplifting tale, inspired by the story of the real Hope the whale - one of the Natural History Museum's most loved exhibits. |
| blue whale natural history museum: Nature Contained Tony O'Dempsey, Mark Emmanuel, John van Wyhe, Nigel P. Taylor, Fiona L.P. Tan, Cynthia Chou, Goh Hong Yi, Corinne Heng, 2014-03-20 How has Singapore's environment and location in a zone of extraordinary biodiversity influenced the economic, political, social, and intellectual history of the island since the early 19th century? What are the antecedents to Singapore's image of itself as a City in a Garden? Grounding the story of Singapore within an understanding of its environment opens the way to an account of the past that is more than a story of trade, immigration, and nation-building. Each of the chapters in this volume focusing on topics ranging from tigers and plantations to trade in exotic animals and the greening of the city, and written by botanists, historians, anthropologists, and naturalists examines how humans have interacted with and understood the natural environment on a small island in Southeast Asia over the past 200 years, and conversely how this environment has influenced humans. Between the chapters are travelers' accounts and primary documents that provide eyewitness descriptions of the events examined in the text. In this regard, Nature Contained: Environmental Histories of Singapore provides new insights into the Singaporean past, and reflects much of the diversity, and dynamism, of environmental history globally. |
| blue whale natural history museum: Biology of Mammals Richard George Van Gelder, 1969 |
| blue whale natural history museum: Nature's Mirror Mary Anne Andrei, 2020-11-20 It may be surprising to us now, but the taxidermists who filled the museums, zoos, and aquaria of the twentieth century were also among the first to become aware of the devastating effects of careless human interaction with the natural world. Witnessing firsthand the decimation caused by hide hunters, commercial feather collectors, whalers, big game hunters, and poachers, these museum taxidermists recognized the existential threat to critically endangered species and the urgent need to protect them. The compelling exhibits they created—as well as the scientific field work, popular writing, and lobbying they undertook—established a vital leadership role in the early conservation movement for American museums that persists to this day. Through their individual research expeditions and collective efforts to arouse demand for environmental protections, this remarkable cohort—including William T. Hornaday, Carl E. Akeley, and several lesser-known colleagues—created our popular understanding of the animal world and its fragile habitats. For generations of museum visitors, they turned the glass of an exhibition case into a window on nature—and a mirror in which to reflect on our responsibility for its conservation. |
| blue whale natural history museum: Out of the Depths Mark Engstrom, Burton Lim, Oliver Haddrath, 2016-03-09 |
| blue whale natural history museum: Big Blue Forever Anita Miettunen, 2017 In 1987 a blue whale died and washed ashore on the coast of Prince Edward Island. |
| blue whale natural history museum: Ahab's Rolling Sea Richard J. King, 2019-11-11 Although Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick is beloved as one of the most profound and enduring works of American fiction, we rarely consider it a work of nature writing—or even a novel of the sea. Yet Pulitzer Prize–winning author Annie Dillard avers Moby-Dick is the “best book ever written about nature,” and nearly the entirety of the story is set on the waves, with scarcely a whiff of land. In fact, Ishmael’s sea yarn is in conversation with the nature writing of Emerson and Thoreau, and Melville himself did much more than live for a year in a cabin beside a pond. He set sail: to the far remote Pacific Ocean, spending more than three years at sea before writing his masterpiece in 1851. A revelation for Moby-Dick devotees and neophytes alike, Ahab’s Rolling Sea is a chronological journey through the natural history of Melville’s novel. From white whales to whale intelligence, giant squids, barnacles, albatross, and sharks, Richard J. King examines what Melville knew from his own experiences and the sources available to a reader in the mid-1800s, exploring how and why Melville might have twisted what was known to serve his fiction. King then climbs to the crow’s nest, setting Melville in the context of the American perception of the ocean in 1851—at the very start of the Industrial Revolution and just before the publication of On the Origin of Species. King compares Ahab’s and Ishmael’s worldviews to how we see the ocean today: an expanse still immortal and sublime, but also in crisis. And although the concept of stewardship of the sea would have been entirely foreign, if not absurd, to Melville, King argues that Melville’s narrator Ishmael reveals his own tendencies toward what we would now call environmentalism. Featuring a coffer of illustrations and an array of interviews with contemporary scientists, fishers, and whale watch operators, Ahab’s Rolling Sea offers new insight not only into a cherished masterwork and its author but also into our evolving relationship with the briny deep—from whale hunters to climate refugees. |
| blue whale natural history museum: Great Whales J. L. Bannister, 2008 Seven Great Whales are found in the coastal waters surrounding Australia. There are six of the largest baleen whalesblue whale, fin whale, humpback whale, sei whale, Brydes whale and southern right whale. Also found is the largest toothed whalethe sperm whale. |
| blue whale natural history museum: The Smithsonian's History of America in 101 Objects Richard Kurin, 2013-10-29 The Smithsonian Institution is America's largest, most important, and most beloved repository for the objects that define our common heritage. Now Under Secretary for Art, History, and Culture Richard Kurin, aided by a team of top Smithsonian curators and scholars, has assembled a literary exhibition of 101 objects from across the Smithsonian's museums that together offer a marvelous new perspective on the history of the United States. Ranging from the earliest years of the pre-Columbian continent to the digital age, and from the American Revolution to Vietnam, each entry pairs the fascinating history surrounding each object with the story of its creation or discovery and the place it has come to occupy in our national memory. Kurin sheds remarkable new light on objects we think we know well, from Lincoln's hat to Dorothy's ruby slippers and Julia Child's kitchen, including the often astonishing tales of how each made its way into the collections of the Smithsonian. Other objects will be eye-opening new discoveries for many, but no less evocative of the most poignant and important moments of the American experience. Some objects, such as Harriet Tubman's hymnal, Sitting Bull's ledger, Cesar Chavez's union jacket, and the Enola Gay bomber, tell difficult stories from the nation's history, and inspire controversies when exhibited at the Smithsonian. Others, from George Washington's sword to the space shuttle Discovery, celebrate the richness and vitality of the American spirit. In Kurin's hands, each object comes to vivid life, providing a tactile connection to American history. Beautifully designed and illustrated with color photographs throughout, The Smithsonian's History of America in 101 Objects is a rich and fascinating journey through America's collective memory, and a beautiful object in its own right. |
| blue whale natural history museum: The Museum of Whales You Will Never See A. Kendra Greene, 2020-05-12 “Filled with charming illustrations, this delightful book about Iceland’s 265 museums is as quirky and mesmerizing as the country’s dreamscape itself.” —Forbes Mythic creatures, natural wonders, and the mysterious human impulse to collect are on beguiling display in this poetic tribute to the museums of an otherworldly island nation, for readers of Atlas Obscura and fans of the Mütter Museum, the Morbid Anatomy Museum, and the Museum of Jurassic Technology. Iceland is home to only 330,000 people (roughly the population of Lexington, Kentucky) but more than 265 museums and public collections. They range from the intensely physical, like the Icelandic Phallological Museum, which collects the penises of every mammal known to exist in Iceland, to the vaporously metaphysical, like the Museum of Icelandic Sorcery and Witchcraft, which poses a particularly Icelandic problem: How to display what can't be seen? In The Museum of Whales You Will Never See, A. Kendra Greene is our wise and whimsical guide through this cabinet of curiosities, showing us, in dreamlike anecdotes and more than thirty charming illustrations, how a seemingly random assortment of objects--a stuffed whooper swan, a rubber boot, a shard of obsidian, a chastity belt for rams--can map a people's past and future, their fears and obsessions. The world is chockablock with untold wonders, she writes, there for the taking, ready to be uncovered at any moment, if only we keep our eyes open. |
| blue whale natural history museum: The Queen & Mr Brown James Francis Wilkins, 2014-04 On one of her rare days off, the Queen and her loveable pet corgi Mr Brown go in search of dinosaurs at London's Natural History Museum. |
| blue whale natural history museum: Windows on Nature Stephen Christopher Quinn, American Museum of Natural History, 2006-04 Profiles more than forty habitat dioramas from the American Museum of Natural History, describing each one's contents and creation and presenting full-color photos and archival images. |
| blue whale natural history museum: Neighborhood Sharks Katherine Roy, 2014-09-30 Up close with the ocean's most fearsome and famous predator and the scientists who study them—just twenty-six miles from the Golden Gate Bridge! A few miles from San Francisco lives a population of the ocean's largest and most famous predators. Each fall, while the city's inhabitants dine on steaks, salads, and sandwiches, the great white sharks return to California's Farallon Islands to dine on their favorite meal: the seals that live on the island's rocky coasts. Massive, fast, and perfectly adapted to hunting after 11 million years of evolution, the great whites are among the planet's most fearsome, fascinating, and least understood animals. In the fall of 2012, Katherine Roy visited the Farallons with the scientists who study the islands' shark population. She witnessed seal attacks, observed sharks being tagged in the wild, and got an up close look at the dramatic Farallons—a wildlife refuge that is strictly off-limits to all but the scientists who work there. Neighborhood Sharks is an intimate portrait of the life cycle, biology, and habitat of the great white shark, based on the latest research and an up-close visit with these amazing animals. |
| blue whale natural history museum: The Whale Philip Hoare, 2016-06-13 |
| blue whale natural history museum: Save the...Blue Whales Christine Taylor-Butler, Chelsea Clinton, 2023-01-10 Blue whales have swum and sprayed their ways into kids' hearts. With this book, readers can become blue whale experts and learn how to save the animals they love. Featuring an introduction from Chelsea Clinton! Did you know that the tongue of blue whale can weigh as much as an elephant? How about that blue whales’ songs can be louder than the engine of a jet plane? Or that, with the right equipment, you can hear a blue whale’s heartbeat two miles away? Perfect for all animal lovers—and blue whale fans in particular—this book is filled with all the facts you need to know to become a blue whale expert! Where are blue whales found? What's it like to be a blue whale? Why are blue whales endangered, and who has been working hard to save them? Read this book and find out how you can help save the blue whales! Complete with black-and-white photographs, a list of fun blue whale facts, and things that kids can do right this very moment to help save blue whales from extinction, this book, with an introduction by animal advocate Chelsea Clinton, is a must for every family, school, and community library. |
| blue whale natural history museum: Spying on Whales Nick Pyenson, 2019-06-25 “A palaeontological howdunnit…[Spying on Whales] captures the excitement of…seeking answers to deep questions in cetacean science.” —Nature Called “the best of science writing” (Edward O. Wilson) and named a best book by Popular Science, a dive into the secret lives of whales, from their four-legged past to their perilous present. Whales are among the largest, most intelligent, deepest diving species to have ever lived on our planet. They evolved from land-roaming, dog-sized creatures into animals that move like fish, breathe like us, can grow to 300,000 pounds, live 200 years and travel entire ocean basins. Whales fill us with terror, awe, and affection--yet there is still so much we don't know about them. Why did it take whales over 50 million years to evolve to such big sizes, and how do they eat enough to stay that big? How did their ancestors return from land to the sea--and what can their lives tell us about evolution as a whole? Importantly, in the sweepstakes of human-driven habitat and climate change, will whales survive? Nick Pyenson's research has given us the answers to some of our biggest questions about whales. He takes us deep inside the Smithsonian's unparalleled fossil collections, to frigid Antarctic waters, and to the arid desert in Chile, where scientists race against time to document the largest fossil whale site ever found. Full of rich storytelling and scientific discovery, Spying on Whales spans the ancient past to an uncertain future--all to better understand the most enigmatic creatures on Earth. |
| blue whale natural history museum: Katie and the Dinosaurs James Mayhew, 2014-10-30 A visit to the Natural History Museum turns into an adventure for Katie when she steps back in time to the world of the dinosaurs! Katie helps a baby dinosaur find his family, rides on the back of a Brontosaurus, and has a picnic with a Triceratops! But just what will she feed a very hungry and fearsome Tyrannosaurus Rex? James has been delighting children with his Katie stories for a quarter of a century. As part of the 25th birthday celebrations, we will be reissuing the whole series with an exciting new cover look. |
| blue whale natural history museum: The Lost Words Robert Macfarlane, 2018-10-02 From bestselling Landmarks author Robert Macfarlane and acclaimed artist and author Jackie Morris, a beautiful collection of poems and illustrations to help readers rediscover the magic of the natural world. |
| blue whale natural history museum: The American Museum of Natural History and How It Got That Way Colin Davey, 2019-05-14 Tells the story of the building of the American Museum of Natural History and Hayden Planetarium, a story of history, politics, science, and exploration, including the roles of American presidents, New York power brokers, museum presidents, planetarium directors, polar and African explorers, and German rocket scientists. The American Museum of Natural History is one of New York City’s most beloved institutions, and one of the largest, most celebrated museums in the world. Since 1869, generations of New Yorkers and tourists of all ages have been educated and entertained here. Located across from Central Park, the sprawling structure, spanning four city blocks, is a fascinating conglomeration of many buildings of diverse architectural styles built over a period of 150 years. The first book to tell the history of the museum from the point of view of these buildings, including the planned Gilder Center, The American Museum of Natural History and How It Got That Way contextualizes them within New York and American history and the history of science. Part II, “The Heavens in the Attic,” is the first detailed history of the Hayden Planetarium, from the museum’s earliest astronomy exhibits, to Clyde Fisher and the original planetarium, to Neil deGrasse Tyson and the Rose Center for Earth and Space, and it features a photographic tour through the original Hayden Planetarium. Author Colin Davey spent much of his childhood literally and figuratively lost in the museum’s labyrinthine hallways. The museum grew in fits and starts according to the vicissitudes of backroom deals, personal agendas, two world wars, the Great Depression, and the Cold War. Chronicling its evolution―from the selection of a desolate, rocky, hilly, swampy site, known as Manhattan Square to the present day―the book includes some of the most important and colorful characters in the city’s history, including the notoriously corrupt and powerful “Boss” Tweed, “Father of New York City” Andrew Haswell Green, and twentieth-century powerbroker and master builder Robert Moses; museum presidents Morris K. Jesup, Henry Fairfield Osborn, and Ellen Futter; and American presidents, polar and African explorers, dinosaur hunters, and German rocket scientists. Richly illustrated with period photos, The American Museum of Natural History and How It Got That Way is based on deep archival research and interviews. |
| blue whale natural history museum: A Whale Out of Water Kate Pocklington, 2016 |
| blue whale natural history museum: 10 Reasons to Love... a Bear Catherine Barr, 2018-02-21 Bears are incredible creatures! Did you know that they can sleep for months on end? Or that they hum when they are happy? Discover ten reasons why bears are amazing and five ways you can show they love them in this gorgeous picture book. A must for any young animal enthusiast and a fantastic introduction to environmental issues. |
| blue whale natural history museum: American Museum of Natural History Card Deck American Museum Of Natural History, David Sobel, 2015-05-19 Created in partnership with the world-renowned American Museum of Natural History, this beautiful, informative card deck captures, in pictures and words, 100 of the museum's most important artifacts, specimens, and exhibits—from a fossilized dinosaur's nest to the largest blue star sapphire in the world (563 carats!). The American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) is one of the world's preeminent natural history museums and research institutions. Its collections contain more than 32 million specimens of plants, humans, animals, fossils, minerals, rocks, meteorites, and cultural artifacts. Now, for the first time, this acclaimed collection is represented in a stunning and informative card deck featuring 100 treasures, hand-selected by the museum's curators, that encompass the most fascinating, iconic, and wide-ranging of the museum's artifacts. The card deck covers each of the museum's major areas of exhibition, including Birds, Reptiles, and Amphibians; Earth and Planetary Science; Fossils; Human Origins and Culture; Mammals; Biodiversity and the Environmental; and the Hayden Planetarium. Some of the 100 objects include the Cape York Meteorite, discovered in Greenland in 1894; the Haida Canoe, built in 1878 by the Indians of the Pacific Northwest and carved from the trunk of a large cedar tree; the Blue Whale, a fiberglass replica of a 94-foot whale caught in 1925 off South George Island and the Warren Mastodon skeleton, the first complete mastodon skeleton discovered in the United States. Each card presents a full-frame photograph of the object on the front and a 200-word description on the back that tells of the origin and age of the object and its scientific and historic significance. |
| blue whale natural history museum: When the Whales Walked Dougal Dixon, 2018-10-18 From the moment life crawled out of the oceans and onto land, to when our primate ancestors climbed down from the trees, the history of Planet Earth is filled with incredible stories. This beautifully illustrated guide explores some of the most exciting and incredible events in evolution, through 13 case studies. Step back in time and discover a world where whales once walked, crocodiles were warm-blooded and snakes had legs! Meet terrifying giant birds, and tiny elephants living on islands in this fascinating creature guide like no other. Learn how whales once walked on four legs before taking to the oceans; how dinosaurs evolved into birds; and how the first cats were small and lived in trees. Featuring a stunning mix of annotated illustrations, illustrated scenes and family trees, evolution is explained here in a captivating and novel style that will make children look at animals in a whole new way. |
| blue whale natural history museum: The Dinosaur Hunters Lowell Dingus, 2020-08-04 The story of the courageous enthusiasts and paleontologists who discovered the secrets of prehistoric life, published in association with the American Museum of Natural History. |
| blue whale natural history museum: The Whale Building Book Lee Post, 2005 This is the manual that will instruct the reader in the step by step process of preparing and articulating a medium sized whale skeleton. It covers from salvaging the skeleton to articulating and displaying it using inexpensive materials found in even small towns to complete a museum quality skeleton from whales 10-25 feet in length. |
| blue whale natural history museum: The St. Louis Exposition , 1904 A collection of photos from the 1904 World's Fair held in St. Louis, Mo. also referred to as the Louisiana Purchase Exposition. |
| blue whale natural history museum: Amazing Whales! Sarah L. Thomson, 2006-02-21 How big are whales? How do whales breathe? Do they live alone or in groups? Why are so many whales in danger? This exceptional book for beginning readers explores one of the most amazing animals in the sea. Featuring breathtaking photographs from the Wildlife Conservation Society, Amazing Whales! is the latest title in a new I Can Read Book series about the fascinating animals that share our world and how we can help to keep them healthy and safe. Ages 4+ |
| blue whale natural history museum: Museums at the Forefront of the History and Philosophy of Geology Gary D. Rosenberg, Renee M. Clary, 2018 Information on museum activities around the world. |
| blue whale natural history museum: Fathoms Rebecca Giggs, 2020-07-28 Winner of the 2021 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction * Finalist for the 2020 Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction * Finalist for the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award A “delving, haunted, and poetic debut” (The New York Times Book Review) about the awe-inspiring lives of whales, revealing what they can teach us about ourselves, our planet, and our relationship with other species. When writer Rebecca Giggs encountered a humpback whale stranded on her local beachfront in Australia, she began to wonder how the lives of whales reflect the condition of our oceans. Fathoms: The World in the Whale is “a work of bright and careful genius” (Robert Moor, New York Times bestselling author of On Trails), one that blends natural history, philosophy, and science to explore: How do whales experience ecological change? How has whale culture been both understood and changed by human technology? What can observing whales teach us about the complexity, splendor, and fragility of life on earth? In Fathoms, we learn about whales so rare they have never been named, whale songs that sweep across hemispheres in annual waves of popularity, and whales that have modified the chemical composition of our planet’s atmosphere. We travel to Japan to board the ships that hunt whales and delve into the deepest seas to discover how plastic pollution pervades our earth’s undersea environment. With the immediacy of Rachel Carson and the lush prose of Annie Dillard, Giggs gives us a “masterly” (The New Yorker) exploration of the natural world even as she addresses what it means to write about nature at a time of environmental crisis. With depth and clarity, she outlines the challenges we face as we attempt to understand the perspectives of other living beings, and our own place on an evolving planet. Evocative and inspiring, Fathoms “immediately earns its place in the pantheon of classics of the new golden age of environmental writing” (Literary Hub). |
| blue whale natural history museum: Wonders of the World's Museums Molly Oldfield, 2018-03-08 Open up this treasure trove of wonders to visit 43 museums and 50 exhibits! Discover the most fascinating and mysterious objects found in museums, from star attractions to unsung exhibits. With Molly Oldfield, research elf of hit television show QI, unearth the astonishing stories of how these treasures were created, found and finally displayed. Travel back in time to discover an ancient Egyptian pharaoh, encounter China's mysterious Terracotta Army, sail the seas in a Viking ship, take flight in the world's first aeroplane, defend World War Two Britain in Churchill's siren suit, journey to the Moon with Neil Armstrong in the Apollo 11 Command Module and even play in a World Cup Final wearing Pelé's victory shirt. Through stunning photography and glorious illustration, these wonders and many more will bring history, science and culture to life for readers aged 10+, as well as the whole family! |
| blue whale natural history museum: Animal Records Mark Carwardine, Natural History Museum (London, England), 2008 This guide features incredible facts about creatures from each of the main animal groups, including mammals, reptiles, birds, amphibians, fish, and insects. |
| blue whale natural history museum: The Queen & Mr Brown: A Night in the Natural History Museum James Francis Wilkins, 2021-03-04 Britain's monarch is back for another animal adventure as she and her lovable pet corgi Mr. Brown visit London's Natural History Museum after hours In the dead of night, when all the visitors have left the Museum, the two friends go in search of the Queen's secret passion--natural history. They encounter enormous woolly mammoths, giant dinosaurs, and a bone as big as the Queen. But it soon transpires that they are not alone in the Museum after all and they find out, at first hand, the unique talents of some of the wondrous creatures in the animal kingdom. When they display their own very, very special skills, the Queen and Mr Brown cause quite a stir among their new friends. Beautifully illustrated and affectionately told, the book is great to read aloud and is also highly suited to encourage children to read on their own. With lots of facts about the amazing abilities of animals, this is a delightful tale of two close friends and their eventful night at the Museum. |
| blue whale natural history museum: A First Book of Animals Nicola Davies, Nicola Davies Nicola, Petr Horácek, 2019-05 Nicola Davies, the award-winning author of A First Book of Nature, presents a spellbinding treasury of poems about the animal world, illustrated in breathtaking detail by Petr Horacek. Polar bears playing on the ice, tigers hunting in the jungle, fireflies twinkling in the evening sky and nightingales singing in the heart of the woods - there are animals everywhere. From blue whales to bumblebee bats and everything in between, A First Book of Animals takes you all over the planet to visit all kinds of different creatures. This book is a glorious celebration of life in the wild in all its variety and splendour, and belongs on every child's bookshelf. |
| blue whale natural history museum: On Extinction Melanie Challenger, 2021-03-16 Realizing the link between her own estrangement from nature and the cultural shifts that led to a dramatic rise in extinctions, award–winning writer Melanie Challenger travels in search of the stories behind these losses. From an exploration of an abandoned mine in England to an Antarctic sea voyage to South Georgia's old whaling stations, from a sojourn in South America to a stay among an Inuit community in Canada, she uncovers species, cultures, and industries touched by extinction. Accompanying her on this journey are the thoughts of anthropologists, biologists, and philosophers who have come before her. Drawing on their words as well as firsthand witness and ancestral memory, Challenger traces the mindset that led to our destructiveness and proposes a path of redemption rooted in our emotional responses. This sobering yet illuminating book looks beyond natural devastation to examine why and what's next. |
| blue whale natural history museum: Bang to Eternity and Betwixt John Hussey, 2014-07-31 Covering the Cosmos from before the Big Bang through to the creation of our universe and up to but not including our arrival on stage; our will is not yet imposed, we had no hand, act nor part in its provisions, beyond investigating to understand what has been delivered us. The many aspects of the Cosmos are melded, in a headline driven style, to paint a cohesive picture as well as allowing the reader choose to delve further where they may choose to paint their personal picture. Cosmos – includes; • The creation mechanism for our Universe and why there exists a possible Multiverse. • The creation mechanisms of the galaxies with their diversity of Star types. • The space exploration of our Solar System. • The Earth and Moon from their birth to their life driving engines for our planet. • The evolutionary processes that led to our arrival on the planet. • Our natural world with its great events. • Documentary video links on all topics of the book are included. The story is factual in manner, in the proper tradition of reporting, no personal opinions are expressed. The life stories of the standout personalities, in text and video, without whom what is now known, could not have been unraveled, in the case of Cosmos, they are; • Galileo Galilei • Isaac Newton • Albert Einstein • Charles Darwin This is a Video Book, vBook, beyond its text there are 150+ video titles, 100+ viewing hours, downloaded and stored locally on your computer, to be able to watch anytime, offline, without the need for local internet connection. Google ‘Cosmos’ and you get about 27,800,000 search results, so over these last several years I’ve searched out the best documentary videos with their hyperlinks included here, blending their content to report cohesively, supplementing, where appropriate, from Wikipedia and also include those hyperlinks for readers wanting to delve further. The ‘List of Contents’ runs to 6 levels to provide a form of map to the reader as the reporting sequence is not a mere chronology of Cosmic events, it delves, as necessary into the stories as to how the events became understood to us. There is a 7th level, hyperlinked, at its base, which brings further background content, from Wikipedia, to those who choose to read further into any of the topics. The ‘Index’ allows navigation for the reader who has specific interests to investigate through the fabric of the report. The ‘Text’ is structured to 4 levels beginning with the primary, headline driven, main body content followed by relevant Wikipedia extracts, indented in purple, for those choosing to read further into a particular topic through to hyperlinked Wikipedia - Full Article text within the book and in turn out to the website itself. For the reader that wants to stay with the big picture, main body content, there is a “Skip” link to take you past each of the extracts, on to the next headline title and main body content. There are 150+ video content links delivering 100+ hours of viewing time, of the best documentary film available online. The main sequence structure is; • Cosmology – Universe & Multiverse • Geology – Earth & Moon • Biology – Life – Plant & Animal • Ecology – Evolution & Environment – Plant, Animal & Human Special Edition There is also a Special Edition of this book available for US$49.95 which streams all video content from a secure Cloud Drive; therefore, video content cannot be removed by third party video platform providers such as YouTube, DailyMotion, Vimeo….. This Standard Edition streams from these. The Cloud Drive Server also allows you conveniently download to your local drive, as much video content as you choose, to watch, offline, at a time that best suits you. To view or purchase, paste the books ASIN: B00LEWY5WW into the Kindle Store search box. If you've any queries, feel welcome to contact bangtoeternityandbetwixt@gmail.com |
| blue whale natural history museum: Earth Edmond A. Mathez, 2001 A collection of essays and articles provides a study of how the planet works, discussing Earth's structure, geographical features, geologic history, and evolution. |
| blue whale natural history museum: Wildlife Photographer of the Year: Portfolio 31 Rosamund Kidman Cox, 2021 This commemorative portfolio displays the full gallery of all 100 pictures awarded in the 2021 Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition. It also tells the stories of how they were created and what they reveal about the subjects depicted. Representing the work of photographers from 30 countries, they illustrate both the beauty and the drama of the natural world and our so-often conflicted relationship with it.--Back cover. |
| blue whale natural history museum: Genuine Fakes Lydia Pyne, 2019-08-08 Does an authentic Andy Warhol painting need to be painted by Andy Warhol? Why do audiences feel outraged when they find out that scenes from their beloved blockbuster documentaries are staged? Can people move past assuming that a diamond grown in a lab is a fake? What happens when a forged painting or manuscript becomes more valuable than its original? This is a book about genuine fakes – the curious and complex objects that provoke these very sorts of questions. Genuine fakes fall into the space between things that are real and things that are not; whether or not we think that those things are authentic is a matter of perspective. Unsurprisingly, the world is full of genuine fakes – full of things that defy simple categorisation. From stories of audacious forgeries to feats of technological innovation, historian Lydia Pyne explores how the authenticity of eight genuine fakes depends on their unique combinations of history, science and culture. The stories of art forgeries, fake fossils, nature documentaries, synthetic flavours, museum exhibits, Maya codices and Palaeolithic replicas show that genuine fakes are both complicated and change over time. Drawing from historical archives, interviews, museum exhibits and science fiction as well as her own research, Pyne brings each genuine fake to life through unexpected and often outrageous stories. Genuine Fakes will make readers think about all the unreal things they encounter in their daily lives, and why they invoke the reactions – surprise, wonder, understanding or annoyance – that they do. |
| blue whale natural history museum: Whale Quest Karen Romano Young, 2018 Introduces whales, discussing their physical features, behavior, and complex communication abilities, along with a history of whaling and a description of the efforts being made by scientists around the world to save them from extinction. --Publisher. |
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The primary responsibility of a Museum Whaler is to provide natural history information about the marine life sighted during the trip, especially the Eastern Pacific gray whale.
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Assemble your class underneath the model of the blue whale. Divide them into teams and assign each team one mammal (sea otter, northern sea lion, elephant seal, dolphin, or manatee) from …
A museological study of two whale displays at the Whaling …
efjord, Norway, is a specialist museum within the field of whales and whaling. The museum exhibits both cultural and natural history, but it is the natural history section that takes up the …
Largest ever study of its kind reveals whales evolved in three …
A new study lead by Dr. Ellen Coombs, who studied her Ph.D. at The Natural History Museum and University College London, has revealed for the first time that the diversity we see in whale...
WHALES_worksheets - American Museum of Natural History
Point out the blue whale and prompt students to talk about the various adaptations that help it breath (blowhole), feed (baleen or bellows) and move (flippers, tail fluke). Students can also …
NEW YORK CITY COVID-19 VACCINATION SITE OPENS …
The American Museum of Natural History is a historic site, a blue whale,” said Health Commissioner Dr. Dave A. Chokshi. “The museum has a legacy of public health and scientific …
Untitled-1 [www.nature.com]
MODEL of a 93-ft. Blue whale has just been completed in the Whale Hall of the British Museum (Natural History). It is constructed of plaster of Paris and cement on a wood and...
THE HISTORICAL OCCURRENCE OF LARGE WHALES OFF THE
the advent of modem whaling, blue whales were not always easy to capture. An old whaling log from the Akutan whaling station in Alaska described the harpooning of a blue whale which …
Blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus musculus) genome: …
Blue whales were hunted to the point of near extinction in the mid-twentieth century. Herein, we use whole genome sequencing to elucidate the poorly understood population structure of North...
Last whales: Eschatology, extinction, and the cetacean …
Early in 2015, the management team of the Natural History Museum in London made a momentous decision. A hugely popular diplodocus cast (‘Dippy’) would be replaced in the …
The One That Got Away - National Library Board
The skeleton of the blue whale hanging from the ceiling of the Raffles Museum’s natural history room. Image reproduced from R. Hanitsch, Guide to the Zoological Collections of the Rafles …
Sightings and Satellite Tracking of a Blue/Fin Whale Hybrid in …
Mar 25, 2021 · We report 20 photo-documented sightings of a blue/fin whale hybrid between 2004 and 2020, in its wintering and summering ranges in the Gulf of California, Mexico, and …
New research rewrites our understanding of whale evolution
The Melbourne Museum—the only place in Australia that presents the overarching story of whale evolution—is home to an articulated skeleton of a Blue Whale, a species of baleen whale and …
Leviathan task: saving the whales in Dublin's 'dead zoo'
The 65-foot (20-metre) skeleton of a fin whale - the second largest species on the planet after the blue whale - has towered over the hall since the late 19th century
BLUE WHALE FACTS - San Diego Natural History Museum
Blue whales have few natural enemies, primarily killer whales. However, they face threats from ship strikes, habitat degradation, anthropogenic noise, pollution, and climate change.
Whales in Wembley: Origins of mysterious blue whale bones …
Having been given to the Natural History Museum over a century ago, the past of these whale vertebrae is only now being rediscovered. Credit: The Trustees of the Natural History...
PART 1 How did blue whales get so big? - American …
blue whales can build up fat quickly. Having more fat lets them go without food for long periods. “A healthy whale is a fat whale,” says Dr. Dave Cade. He’s a postdoc in the Goldbogen lab. B ue …
'Hope' the whale replaces 'Dippy' as London museum's …
"Hope" the blue whale takes over from "Dippy" the dinosaur as the centrepiece of the revamped atrium of London's Natural History Museum on Thursday despite a spirited campaign to keep …
BIBLIOASIA JUL–SEP 2023 The O
The skeleton of a blue whale took pride of place at the former Rafles Museum for more than 60 years before it was gifted to the National Museum of Malaysia in 1974.
Encyclopedia of Marine Mammals, Second Edition
Figure 2 The full-size model of a blue whale that was mounted at the National Museum of Natural History in Washington, DC.
San Diego Natural History Museum Whalers - sdnhm.org
The primary responsibility of a Museum Whaler is to provide natural history information about the marine life sighted during the trip, especially the Eastern Pacific gray whale.
EM_guide_lettersized.indd - American Museum of Natural …
Assemble your class underneath the model of the blue whale. Divide them into teams and assign each team one mammal (sea otter, northern sea lion, elephant seal, dolphin, or manatee) from …
A museological study of two whale displays at the Whaling …
efjord, Norway, is a specialist museum within the field of whales and whaling. The museum exhibits both cultural and natural history, but it is the natural history section that takes up the …
Largest ever study of its kind reveals whales evolved in three …
A new study lead by Dr. Ellen Coombs, who studied her Ph.D. at The Natural History Museum and University College London, has revealed for the first time that the diversity we see in whale...
WHALES_worksheets - American Museum of Natural History
Point out the blue whale and prompt students to talk about the various adaptations that help it breath (blowhole), feed (baleen or bellows) and move (flippers, tail fluke). Students can also …
NEW YORK CITY COVID-19 VACCINATION SITE OPENS …
The American Museum of Natural History is a historic site, a blue whale,” said Health Commissioner Dr. Dave A. Chokshi. “The museum has a legacy of public health and scientific …
Untitled-1 [www.nature.com]
MODEL of a 93-ft. Blue whale has just been completed in the Whale Hall of the British Museum (Natural History). It is constructed of plaster of Paris and cement on a wood and...
THE HISTORICAL OCCURRENCE OF LARGE WHALES …
the advent of modem whaling, blue whales were not always easy to capture. An old whaling log from the Akutan whaling station in Alaska described the harpooning of a blue whale which …
Blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus musculus) genome: …
Blue whales were hunted to the point of near extinction in the mid-twentieth century. Herein, we use whole genome sequencing to elucidate the poorly understood population structure of North...
Last whales: Eschatology, extinction, and the cetacean …
Early in 2015, the management team of the Natural History Museum in London made a momentous decision. A hugely popular diplodocus cast (‘Dippy’) would be replaced in the …
The One That Got Away - National Library Board
The skeleton of the blue whale hanging from the ceiling of the Raffles Museum’s natural history room. Image reproduced from R. Hanitsch, Guide to the Zoological Collections of the Rafles …
Sightings and Satellite Tracking of a Blue/Fin Whale Hybrid …
Mar 25, 2021 · We report 20 photo-documented sightings of a blue/fin whale hybrid between 2004 and 2020, in its wintering and summering ranges in the Gulf of California, Mexico, and …
New research rewrites our understanding of whale evolution
The Melbourne Museum—the only place in Australia that presents the overarching story of whale evolution—is home to an articulated skeleton of a Blue Whale, a species of baleen whale and …
Leviathan task: saving the whales in Dublin's 'dead zoo'
The 65-foot (20-metre) skeleton of a fin whale - the second largest species on the planet after the blue whale - has towered over the hall since the late 19th century
