My Cats Playing With Their Beloved Brush
July 6th, 2010 by Ramona
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Further impressions of the Berlin Museum of Natural History
June 26th, 2010 by Ramona
The Berlin Museum of Natural History has several permanent exhbitions:
- The World of Dinosaurs
- Fossils
- Minerals
- System Earth
- Cosmos and solar system
- Evolution in action
- Becoming Human
- Hoofed Mammals
- Birds
- Large dioramas
- Mammals and insects models
- Preparation techniques
- Humboldt exploratorium
Brachiosaurus Brancai
Archaeopteryx Lithographica
Aspidoceras hirsutum
Bradysaurus baini
Skulls of Homo sapiens (for around 500,000 years)
Skulls of Australopithecus africanus
Skull of Australopithecus africanus
Skull of Australopithecus anamensis
A blood drinking bird eating parasites
Komodo Dragon
Large Dioramas
Reptilian Collection
Mosquito
June 26th, 2010 by Ramona
Anopheles Gambiae
The photos show a 60x enlarged model of a mosquito. The mosquitos causes two to three million deaths per year by passing illnesses like malaria, yellow fever and dengue fever. That’s why they rank among the most dangerous animals in the world.
The temporary exhibition “PARASITES – LIFE UNDERCOVER” at the “Museum für Naturkunde Berlin” (Berlin Museum of Natural History) deals with the fascinating world of the parasites with their amazing survival strategies in connection with their host organism, but also the terrible diseases they pass.
Hominiden Evolution
June 26th, 2010 by Ramona
The “Museum für Naturkunde Berlin” (Berlin Museum of Natural History) shows currently a temporary exhibition about the evolution of hominids. Nine scientific exactly reconstructed busts gives you an impression about the evolutionary history of the humans. The exhibition ends on December 31st, 2010.
Australopithecus anamensis (4.2 to 3.8 million years ago)
Kenyanthropus platyops (3.5 to 3.2 million years ago)
Australopithecus afarensis (3.7 to 2.9 million years ago)
Australopithecus africanus (3 to 2 million years ago)
Homo rudolfensis (2.5 to 1.8 million years ago)
Homo habilis (2.33 to 1.44 million years ago)
Paranthropus boisei (2.5 to 1.1 million years ago)
Homo erectus (1.8 million to 300,000 years ago)
Homo neanderthalensis (400,000 to 30,000 years ago)
