Small clay model of a four-legged animal standing sedately. There’s a human figure for scale (Coryphodon shoulders are chest high)
Coryphodon now in head down charging pose. Life sized model in milled foam in a warehouse setting
Finished model painted blue with white cut-out skull and femur. Elbow resting on a bucket
Finished model installed in gallery on yellow platform, surrounded by illuminated illustrations of other animals
A few behind-the-scenes photos of Minimalist Coryphodon. After a couple colleagues expressed disappointment that our “giant” of the Paleocene wasn’t all that giant, I pushed for a more agro pose.
I wanted visitors to leave understanding that an animal this size could easily crush them!
13.09.2025 14:39 — 👍 115 🔁 17 💬 5 📌 1
Original drawing from Guillaume-Antoine Olivier of a Megasoma gyas, a huge dark beetle with golden hair and huge horns on torso and head.
I’m (finally) reading about Dynastinae morphological character and I stumbled upon Guillaume-Antoine Olivier, who described many species such as Megasoma gyas... in 1789 and in the following years.
I like to imagine the guy "Yeah France is on fire rn but I’m going to describe my insects tyvm"
26.09.2025 16:45 — 👍 11 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
e-COL+ Numérisation 3D des collections naturalistes.
Projet e-COL+ Numérisation 3D des collections naturalistes a bénéficié d'une aide de l’État PIA3-ANR-21-ESRE-0053
Our website www.ecolplus.fr has a brand-new look ✨
Discover:
- the #digitization of French natural history #collections
- the equipment available
- our partner institutions
- a dedicated page for the latest news
👉 And it’s now available in English too!
03.09.2025 08:51 — 👍 11 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 0
e-COL+ Numérisation 3D des collections naturalistes.
Projet e-COL+ Numérisation 3D des collections naturalistes a bénéficié d'une aide de l’État PIA3-ANR-21-ESRE-0053
Le site www.ecolplus.fr fait peau neuve ✨
Vous y trouverez :
- une présentation du projet de #numérisation des #collections naturalistes françaises
- les équipements disponibles
- les partenaires impliqués
Et nouveauté : une page dédiée à toutes nos actualités !
03.09.2025 08:50 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
JOURNEE 3D Produire, analyser, gérer et diffuser les données 3D dans les sciences naturelles : de la conservation des collection naturalistes aux beso - YouTube
Auditorium de la Grande Galerie de l'Evolution, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle – les 29 et 30/01/2025
Le @mnhn.fr a organisé les #Journées3D.
2 jours pour discuter des données issues de la numérisation 3D des spécimens naturalistes :
- pour la #recherche
- pour les #collections naturalistes
- pour la gestion de ces données
Retrouver l'intégralité des présentations ici :
youtube.com/playlist?lis...
04.08.2025 17:18 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Top: black and white 3D rendering of a dusky basslet fish
Bottom left: purple/pink 3D rendering of the brain of the fish, with a scale bar representing 0.5 mm
Bottom right: A photograph of a 3D printed and painted anatomical model of the fish brain on a white stand, with colors demonstrating anatomical regions.
Top: black and white 3D rendering of a midwife toad
Bottom left: purple/pink 3D rendering of the brain of the frog, with a scale bar representing 1 mm
Bottom right: A photograph of a 3D printed and painted anatomical model of the frog brain on a white stand, with colors demonstrating anatomical regions.
Top: black and white 3D rendering of a plated lizard
Bottom left: purple/pink 3D rendering of the brain of the lizard, with a scale bar representing 3 mm
Bottom right: A photograph of a 3D printed and painted anatomical model of the lizard brain on a white stand, with colors demonstrating anatomical regions.
I used my 3D printer to create educational anatomical models of the brains of fish, frog, & lizard 🐟🐸🦎 The (color-blind friendly) colors demonstrate anatomical regions, and the 🧠 are many times larger than their real size. They can be removed from their stands for closer examination/comparison 🧪
26.06.2025 15:53 — 👍 15 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 1
Camille presenting the poster entitled:
From Specimens to Digital Twin: High-Throughput Pipeline for Synchrotron Imaging of Museum Collections
Congrats to Camille Berruyer and the NOVITOM team, who presented their poster at #Technart:
4000 arthropod specimens from @mnhn.fr are being digitized using synchrotron microCT at @esrf.fr , with a high-throughput pipeline developed for #e-COL+.
#OpenScience
#3DImaging
18.05.2025 14:01 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
3 photos of fish scanned in 3D and key figures for the ScanAllTypes project:
- 362 types scanned
- including 130 holotypes
- spread across 11 orders and 86 families of fish
ScanAllTypes: 362 fish types digitized in 3D, thanks to the operators (👋 @m0neverest.bsky.social , @morganproust.bsky.social et K. Leblanc) and to the ichthyology collection team.
A unique expertise in X-ray tomography, to preserve and share the @mnhn.fr's heritage.
#OpenScience
18.05.2025 13:44 — 👍 5 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0
3 photos de poissons numérisés en 3D et chiffres clés du projet ScanAllTypes :
- 362 types scannés
- dont 130 holotypes
- répartis sur 11 ordres et 86 familles de poissons
362 types de poissons numérisés en 3D grâce aux opérateurs (👋 @m0neverest.bsky.social, @morganproust.bsky.social et K. Leblanc) et aux équipes des collections d'ichtyologie.
Un savoir-faire unique en tomo à rayons X, développé pour préserver et partager le patrimoine du @mnhn.fr. #ScienceOuverte
18.05.2025 13:40 — 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
La deadline approche (30 avril)
N'hésitez pas à envoyer votre candidature si vous voulez participer au projet e-COL+ en tant qu'operateur.ice de numérisation
16.04.2025 17:32 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
L'occasion de découvrir que les numérisations 3D sont diffusées sous licence libre. Déjà 14000 fichiers proposés ! #ScienceOuverte
29.03.2025 09:38 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Technicien de collection spécialisé en numérisation 3D (F/H) @ Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle
Muséum national d'Histoire naturellerecrute !
#JobAlert!
Nous cherchons un opérateur de numérisation pour le projet e-COL+.
Si vous avez de l'expérience avec la numérisation 3D (acquisition ou post-traitement) et avec les collections naturalistes, n'hésitez pas à postuler : recrutement.mnhn.fr/front-jobs-d...
🗓️ Deadline : 30 avril 2025
28.03.2025 19:12 — 👍 5 🔁 12 💬 0 📌 3
Villa Vigoni | Centro italo-tedesco per il dialogo europeo
Home - Villa Vigoni | Centro italo-tedesco per il dialogo europeo - Un laboratorio di idee, un punto di riferimento del dialogo e della collaborazione tra Italia e Germania nel contesto europeo. -
Heading to the beautiful Villa Vigoni in #Italy for the second workshop on "Digitisation of Natural History Collections in Europe between Humanities and Natural Sciences" to present the @e-colplus.bsky.social project and reflect on numerical collections.
www.villavigoni.eu
24.03.2025 05:45 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
SorbonNum+
You can now browse through Sorbonne Université's scientific collections' catalogues (including medical collections). They started working on this 4 years ago: colluniv.sorbonne-universite.fr
18.03.2025 09:18 — 👍 100 🔁 30 💬 2 📌 2
YouTube video by Novitom
3D non destructive imaging of an insect
The #e-COL+ project is also digitizing @mnhn.fr arthropod collections 🐛🪰🪳using advanced imaging!
For specimens <1 cm, Novitom (www.novitom.com/fr/) captures high-res CT-scans at @esrf.fr #Synchrotron, revealing stunning details—like this 3mm 𝘿𝙖𝙘𝙣𝙚 𝙗𝙞𝙥𝙪𝙨𝙩𝙪𝙡𝙖𝙩𝙖 🪲!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ju_f...
26.02.2025 10:32 — 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
After ct-scanning a school of fish with @killianleblanc and @m0neverest.bsky.social (more than 500 scans), the first amphibian I was lucky enough to scan for the @e-colplus.bsky.social !
Welcome to Quasipaa exilispinosa (MNHN_RA_1988.7891)!
@chrisdufresnes.bsky.social @paulineprovini.bsky.social
14.02.2025 22:30 — 👍 1 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
CT scanning is like a box of chocolates!
For this Salamandra terrestris (MNHN-RA-1978-0538) from the @mnhn.fr collections, scanned as part of the #e-COL+ project, we got :
- the specimen
- Its last meal (an insect)
- Eggs,
- Tiny fetuses as a bonus!
20.01.2025 18:02 — 👍 10 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Après la préparation ostéologique de l'orque de la Seine, chaque os a été numérisé par l'équipe #e-COL+.
Cela a permis à l'équipe du @cr2p.bsky.social de remonter le squelette virtuellement.
Une façon de mettre en valeur ce 1er squelette complet d'orque au @mnhn.fr !
15.01.2025 12:42 — 👍 15 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
carte de voeux créée par Andréa Filippo représentant des squelettes montés de la Galerie d'Anatomie Comparée, numérisés pour le projet e-COL+
Meilleurs voeux pour la nouvelle année!
Une année s'achève et avec elle son lot de numérisations des collections naturalistes du Muséum réalisées dans le cadre du projet #e-COL+.
Redécouvrez une partie des collections de la Galerie d'Anatomie Comparée grâce à notre carte de voeux!
@mnhn.fr
10.01.2025 08:59 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
The first two ct-scanned fish of the year for the #e-COL+project!
Say hello to Leporinus reinhardti (paratype) and Centropomus mexicanus (holotype)!
@e-colplus.bsky.social
06.01.2025 16:11 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Scène montrant une saisie 3D en lumière structurée, © CNRS - Simon Bianchetti
Image montrant un spécimen en cours de numérisation par l'Artec Micro, à l'Université de Bourgogne
Numérisation d'un gorille par le GoScan Park dans les collections du MNHN
14 102 numérisations 3D ont été réalisées depuis juin 2021 grâce à l'acquisition de nombreux équipements par l'Université de Lyon (UCBL), l'Université de Bourgogne (UB) et le Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (@mnhn.fr)
31.12.2024 14:27 — 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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Scholar of Earth's history in literature and culture. Research Associate in Natural History Humanities at the Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge.
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