Fossilized and Natural Specimens

Images of unique geological and biological specimens including a sacrum, cervantite, fossils, and ancient mummies, highlighting their textures and forms.

Cervantite, oxide, with Stibiconite pseudomorphs of Antimony, sulphides.
Cervantite, oxide, with Stibiconite pseudomorphs of Antimony, sulphides.
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Example of Desert rose crystal, a formation of crystal clusters of gypsum or baryte which are rose-like. Dated 21st Century
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Terra mineralia in Freiberg
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Plastination specimen of human abdominal and thoracic organs
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Maryland's Sen. Barbara Mikulski greeted employees at NASA's Goddard SpaceFlight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, during a packed town hall meetingJan. 6. She discussed her history with Goddard and appropriations for NASAin 2016.Read more: http://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2016/maryland-sen-barbara-mikulski-visits-nasa-goddard
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Tyrannosaurus rex, 68 mylions before, Dinosauria, museo de los dinosaurios, Esperaza.departamento del Aude, Languedoc-Roussillon, pirineos orientales,Francia, europa.
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Fossil guards of belemnites / Belemnitida from Lyme Regis taken on lightbox, Jurassic Coast, Dorset, UK
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Last Rose of Summer. (Gypsum formation on the ceiling of Cleveland's Cabinet, 8 inches in diameter.) Views of Mammoth Cave. 1876 - 1877. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Kentucky, Caves , Kentucky, Mammoth Cave (Ky.)
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Iris (Iris sp) SEM close-up view of pollen grain at 700x magnification
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Ammonites. Asteroceras stellare. Initial Jurassic Period. Natural History Museum. London. United Kingdom.
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Drodromeus Makelei Embryo DInosaur - artist conception based on cat scan
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Trilobite fossil
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Skeleton of a Spinosaurus, a genus of theropod dinosaur.
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Fossil shell Glycemeris sp. on white background
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Tooth decay on black background. Macro shot of a decayed teeth till root after extraction of dentist. Real tooth anatomy due lack of care. Top view of caries teeth texture on black paper. Dental care.
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Remora (Remora sp) attached to researcher's hand by suction, Hawaii
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Scanning Electron Micrograph of Rat's Intestine, with Giardia
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Computer illustration of the head of the parasitic hookworm Ancylostoma duodenale. This is one of the commonest causes of hookworm infestation in huma...
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Standing male act
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Sample of ammonite prehistoric fossil on the surface of the stone, archeology and paleontology concept Sample of ammonite prehistoric fossil on the surface of the stone shot on gray. Archeology and paleontology concept. Small ammonite shell fossil on rock against a gray background Copyright: xZoonar.com/DIMITRIYxSHABANOVx 12677159
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Maranta root (Maranta arundinacea)
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Dendraster coalingensis fossil, Echinoidea, Pliocene.
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English walnut (Juglans regia)
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earliest recorded human made, artistic object. A pebble resembling a human face, from Makapansgat, South Africa, ca. 3,000,000 BCE
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Faecal packet, fecal sac, faecal sac, mucous membrane that surrounds the feces of great tit chick
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Cactus Skeleton
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Skull, illustration
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Semicassis laevigata fossil, Gastropoda, Pliocene.
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Mealybug pupa
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A section of leg with a skin disease. Chromolithograph, c. 1888.
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USA, Mississippi, Greenville. Winterville Mounds, one of the largest Native American mound sites in the US, circa AD 1100. National Historic Landmark. Discoidal stones.
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Ammonites fossil in Valencian Community of spain
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Europa - Mosaic
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Fossil impression of seed fern Neuropteris gigantea, Pteridospermatophyta, Carboniferous, Dortmund, Germany.
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Hopper dredge Essayons operates in the Columbia River near Cathlamet, Washington on July 25, 2022. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers hopper dredge Essayons, operated by a merchant marine crew, was delivered to the Portland District in 1983. The Essayons helps maintain the entrance bars, rivers and harbors on the coasts of California, Oregon, Washington, Hawaii, Alaska and, in emergencies, the Mississippi River. Because of its size and dredging depth, the Essayons is particularly well-suited for dredging the larger coastal entrances and larger volume sand deposits in river channels.
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Fossil of Caryophyllia sp stony coral, Anthozoa, Pliocene.
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Isocardia cor fossil, Pliocene Epoch, Castell'Arquato, Italy.
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Carnelian amygdaloid seal. Culture: Minoan. Dimensions: L. 1.95 cm; W. 1.5 cm. Date: ca. 1700-1450 B.C..Palm tree with suckersAn indigenous species of palm still grows on Crete. It is known as Theophrastus' palm, after the ancient Greek botanist. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.
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Domestic Chicken Egg - showing germinal disc
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Steneosaurus sp. Crocodile teeth, Middle Jurassic, Forest Marble, Atworth, Wiltshire.
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Mummy of an Ibis, Saqqara, Egypt, 3000 BC
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Kaolin, silicate.
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West African Lungfish just extract of its cocoon Cameroon
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thunderbolt fossilised rostra of belemnoids - thunderbolt isolated on white background Copyright: xZoonar.com/VVxVoennyyx 5057738
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Minerals: Demantoid in Asbestos
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Magic gemma with the performance of Jupiter Seapis
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Researcher Dr. Yi Li developed a technique to manipulate certain characteristics of plant growth such as anit-senescence. For example, the tobacco leaf was clipped from a transgenic plant (right), and a wildtype plant (left). During ground-based laboratory studies, both leaves were left in a darkened area for 4 months. When retrieved, the wildtype plant leaf was dried-out and the transgenic leaf remained fresh and green. A variation of this technology that involves manipulating plant hormones has been conducted in space-based studies on tomato plants through BioServe Space Technologies. The transport and distribution of auxin, an important plant hormone has shown to be influenced by microgravity, which could lead to improving the quality of fruits and vegetables grown on Earth.
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Archaeologists have demonstrated that civilization in Syria was one of the most ancient on earth. Around the excavated city of Ebla in northern Syria, an Italian mission led by Prof. Paolo Matthiae discovered in 1975, a great Semitic empire spread from the Red Sea north to Turkey and east to Mesopotamia from 2500 to 2400 BCE Ebla appears to have been founded around 3000 BCE and gradually built its empire through trade with the cities of Sumer and Akkad, as well as with peoples to the northwest. Gifts from pharaohs found during excavations confirm Ebla's contact with Egypt. Scholars believe the language of Ebla to be among the oldest known written Semitic languages. The Eblan civilization was likely conquered by Sargon of Akkad around 2260 BCE; the city was restored as the nation of the Amorites a few centuries later and flourished through the early second millennium BCE until conquered by the Hittites.
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Escarias Soldades rock sample geology display, Casa de los Volcanes volcanic study centre, Lanzarote, Canary island, Spain, Europe
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Anatomical model of a human body with visible muscles, German Roentgen Museum, Remscheid-Lennep, NRW, Germany, Europe
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microdosing by psilocybin mushrooms. Biohacking and brain devel
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Agate nodule, variety of Chalcedony, oxide, from Brazil. Section.
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Astronaut Scott Kelly initiated VEG-01 B, the second crop of lettuce, on July, 8, 2015, and both Kelly and Astronaut Kjell Lindgren cared for the plants. The crop grew for 33 days. VEG-01 B included one set of six plant pillows planted with red romaine lettuce seeds. On Aug. 10, 2015, the crew harvested and consumed leaves from each plant. This was the first crop grown and consumed in NASA hardware. They harvested the rest of the plant tissue and froze it in the stations Minus Eighty-Degree Laboratory Freezer for ISS (MELFI) for return to Earth for further study including microbial analysis, antioxidant capacity, mineral analysis and anthocyanin concentration.
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Humboldt Squid (Dosidicus gigas) dead specimen 12 meters in length, being inspected by Ben Cropp