Ben Miller

Awesome, so glad to hear it! 💀

2023, what is time

The Rundown: Field Museum’s Death exhibit asks life’s biggest questions “There’s not such a finite line between life and death,” says Gary Feinman, an anthropology curator and content expert at the Field Museum. Feinman and his colleagues, including exhibition developer B...

Here’s an interview I did with Gary Feinman back in 2003 about the show: www.wbez.org/the-rundown-...

Hey Edmonton and thereabouts: Death: Life’s Greatest Mystery is now at the Royal Alberta Museum! I co-wrote this touring exhibition with a couple dozen incredible collaborators and community members. Please enjoy!

email sender: Royal Alberta Museum email subject: Death is here... 💀

Slightly concerned about the marketing emails I'm getting

Exhibit writing/development gig for folks around NYC: careers.amnh.org/postings/4737

Maybe people would be better informed if we could edit preferences for the iphone top stories widget. Mine is exclusively made up of:
- local crime news from places I don’t live
- Fast food industry news (???)
- Paywalled articles from outlets I don’t subscribe to that stick around for 6-12 months

Looking down at museum display of mammoth skeleton with single spear-totting human skelly. On a round platform with plants and a teepee

There’s also this one in Price, which is comparatively tame (though that lone guy doesn’t stand much of a chance)

Mammoth skeleton cast surrounded by at least six human skeletons coming at it with spears in a wraparound museum display

Alt angle of same. Note the dude chucking rocks from up on the cliff, and the dude getting crushed underfoot

Another display with a human skeleton on wires being flung by a mastodon cast skeleton. There’s also a flying mammoth behind them (unrelated)

Alt angle where a skeleton with an atlatl at point blank range is just standing there screaming

I love these displays of human skeletons attacking/getting wrecked by proboscidians. Are there any more examples?

Oh wow

The 56-foot fin whale skeleton suspended above you at the Museum dates from the late 19th century. The whale was shipped by rail from California to Colorado College where it was on display in Palmer Hall. In 1977, the whale skeleton came to the Museum where it has been on display ever since.

Too bad, that *is* better

“Cave” in this context just means “from ice age Europe.” There’s probably an argument to be made that it’s a misleading epithet.

Looking down at skull and jaw of a bear, stored separately in foam cradles in a wooden drawer

Front end of mandible of a lion in a foam lined box

Partial jaw with really big teeth

Cave bear, cave lion, and cave hyena

I'm constantly trying (/failing) to get this point across.

If you're a trained expert in a field, then it may be worthwhile to question the scientific consensus of your peers.

If you're not, the scientific consensus is absolutely the best you can do and it's arbitrary foolishness to disregard it.

Catalog page with photos of animatronic prehistoric animals: T. rex, Edaphosaurus, Polacanthus, and "saber-toothed tiger"

This is from their "gen 1" catalog and that Dimetrodon is the gen 2 design, but could it be the Polacanthus?

Blurry photo of Hans Sues in a tie standing in front of Stan the T. rex cast.

It's genuinely moving to see so many people sharing how Hans Sues went out of his way to support their lives and careers. He will be missed.

Triceratops

Idea: a podcast hosted by a cat, where various guests go into a recording booth with a cat

As in Livingston Montana?

Ok maybe all pre-1980s Triceratops were in that pose

Children climb on the face of a Triceratops statue in a sand pit.

A copy of that statue that was on the national mall, and later, at the national zoo would eventually be named Uncle Beazley, thus completing the cosmic circle.

Life-sized striped Triceratops statue on a platform with two boys posing in front of it. T. rex statue partially visible to the left.

I'm not sure if these illustrations by Louis Darling were in the original 1956 publication, but if they were they predate the similarly (but less extreme) pose of the world's fair Triceratops model by a decade.

Pen and ink illustration of a boy leading a sheep-sized Triceratops on a chain. Trike has right forelimb back and left forelimb forward.

Another illustration of a bigger Triceratops in the same pose, seen from the front. It's walking down a hallway and crushing a guy to the left.

Mounted Triceratops skeleton with left forelimb forward, right forelimb back, and head turned to the left.

Same skeleton from the front

Seemingly every illustration of Uncle Beazley in The Enormous Egg is in the same pose as the AMNH Triceratops mount.

what if at his next con everyone just watches @tetzoo.bsky.social play this for six hours

beat that:

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Oh cool, I didn't know it was the only one! I don't know of any other scratching dinosaur mounts either—so cute and relatable.

Rearing Barosaurus cast with charging Allosaurus in front. In a tall rotunda with columns and a vaulted ceiling.

Parasaurolophus mounted skeleton walking on all fours on a landform

Upward angle at blue whale skeleton with open mouth in diving pose, hanging from ceiling of huge gothic cathedral-like space.

Runners up for the title of RCI’s best work, imo:

Mounted skeleton of T. rex biting frill of prone Triceratops cast with one foot up on its flank. In a colorful museum display with a woman looking on in the corner.

This is still RCI’s masterpiece. Look how they captured the weight and power of an animal totally unlike anything any of us have seen alive, in a mixed-media sculpture made of steel and old rocks. #FossilFriday