'Our hearts stopped': Scientists find baby pterosaurs died in violent #Jurassic storm 150 million years ago. Researchers found storm injuries during a baby #pterosaur post-mortem, solving a Jurassic mystery that was 150 million years in the making.

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'Our hearts stopped': Scientists find baby pterosaurs died in violent Jurassic storm 150 million years ago | Live Science

Researchers found storm injuries during a baby pterosaur post-mortem, solving a Jurassic mystery that was 150 million years in the making.

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Archaeological finds on the island of Santorini reveal that the Minoans, one of Europe’s earliest advanced civilizations, had developed portable cooking devices more than 3600 years ago. These stone supports, discovered in Akrotiri and now housed in the Museum of Prehistoric Thera, were designed specifically for grilling skewers of meat. @histories_arch #globalmuseum #museums #Minoan #cooking

Lover's Eye Bracelet. The Met Collection. Miniature paintings in watercolor on ivory, of a single eye, were introduced first in France and quickly became a fad in Great Britain in the late eighteenth-century.

Lover's Eye Bracelet - Probably British - The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy.

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Cynthia from Fairfax just treated herself to these Museum Docent buttons! Your can too. They're in the Global Museum Store

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Buttons, Patches And Magnets

Decorate your apparel or accessories with our buttons and printed patches

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Calamities causing loss of museum collections: a historical and global perspective on museum disasters, by Tyler et al,. via Zootaxa from 2023 with plenty of higher education examples

Calamities causing loss of museum collections: a historical and global perspective on museum disasters | Zootaxa

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A pair of amusing porcelain figurines, each depicting a noblewoman and a nobleman (17th century). Bavarian National Museum in Munich. ‪Stephan Friedrich Mai‬ ‪@wicquefortdiary.bsky.social‬ #globalmuseum #museums #porcelain

Scientists discover 'jaw-droppingly weird' dinosaur fossil in #Morocco. Discovered near the Moroccan town of Boulemane, the Spicomellus dinosaur lived 165 million years ago.

Scientists discover 'jaw-droppingly weird' dinosaur fossil in Morocco

Scientists uncover a fossil with the most extensive armour of any known dinosaur, with metre-long spikes protruding from its neck.

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Looted art discovered in home of Nazi’s daughter vanishes again. A missing painting that was stolen during World War II and found in the home of the daughter of a high-ranking Nazi fugitive in Argentina, has vanished once again

NZ Herald

Stolen WWII painting vanishes again from Nazi daughter's home

Portrait of a Lady by Giuseppe Ghislandi was looted from a Jewish art collector in 1940.

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Pick your poison babe, I’m poison either way 🧪 All this talk of rings makes us think of the KGB poison ring in our SPY Vault! This clandestine assassination device from the Cold War is made with a blue carved stone scarab that unscrews to reveal a short spike, which would be coated in poison. Style, impact, and quite the statement piece 💍❤️‍🔥 The International Spy Museum @IntlSpyMuseum #TaylorSwift #Ring #SpyArtifact