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Media Advisory – Photo/Video Op –

Canadian Museum of Nature OTTAWA, Ontario, May 07, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Media are invited to a photo/video…
#Netherlands #Nederland #NL #Europe #Europa #EU #CanadianMuseumofNature #HerRoyalHighness #ontario #Ottawa #PietervanVollenhoven #PolarKnowledgeCanadaNorthernVoicesGallery #PrincessMargriet
https://www.europesays.com/netherlands/10228/

Nanocosmos: Journey in Electron Space – il nuovo libro di Michael Benson esplora la bellezza invisibile del microcosmo

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.galaxyaddicted.it/2025/11/nanocosmos-michael-benson-libro-2025/

Nanocosmos: Journey in Electron Space – il nuovo libro di Michael Benson esplora la bellezza invisibile del microcosmo

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.galaxyaddicted.it/2025/11/nanocosmos-michael-benson-libro-2025/

Nanocosmos: Journey in Electron Space – il nuovo libro di Michael Benson esplora la bellezza invisibile del microcosmo

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.galaxyaddicted.it/2025/11/nanocosmos-michael-benson-libro-2025/

Great post by alum Joshua Wasserlauf on the Canadian Museum of Nature site: Using stable isotopes to estimate of the migration distances of young and mature hadrosaurs.

https://nature.ca/en/duck-billed-dinosaurs-on-the-move-what-tooth-chemistry-can-tell-us-about-hadrosaur-migration

H/T: https://mastodon.online/@globalmuseum/112028566119763651

#CarletonUniversity #UOttawa #McGillUniversity #EarthSystemScience #Dinosaurs #StableIsotopes #CanadianMuseumOfNature

Random photo of the day.

#photography #random #photooftheday #POTD #dailyphoto #OttawaPhotographer #sunset #stormhour #Ottawa #CanadianMuseumofNature #streetview

#FossilAdventCalendar Day 24

Our journey #north ends with one of the most important #fossils ever found. Like Puijila, Tiktaalik roseae is known from #Nunavut 🇨🇦, has an #Inuktitut name (meaning "large freshwater #fish"), and records an important #evolutionary transition, this time from #sea to #land. #Tiktaalik shares traits with both fish and #tetrapods, making it a close relative of all of us land-living #vertebrates. This replica and model are from the #CanadianMuseumOfNature.

#FossilAdventCalendar Day 24

Our journey #north ends with one of the most important #fossils ever found. Like Puijila, Tiktaalik roseae is known from #Nunavut 🇨🇦, has an #Inuktitut name (meaning "large freshwater #fish"), and records an important #evolutionary transition, this time from #sea to #land. #Tiktaalik shares traits with both fish and #tetrapods, making it a close relative of all of us land-living #vertebrates. This replica and model are from the #CanadianMuseumOfNature.

#FossilAdventCalendar Day 24

Our journey #north ends with one of the most important #fossils ever found. Like Puijila, Tiktaalik roseae is known from #Nunavut 🇨🇦, has an #Inuktitut name (meaning "large freshwater #fish"), and records an important #evolutionary transition, this time from #sea to #land. #Tiktaalik shares traits with both fish and #tetrapods, making it a close relative of all of us land-living #vertebrates. This replica and model are from the #CanadianMuseumOfNature.

#FossilAdventCalendar Day 24

Our journey #north ends with one of the most important #fossils ever found. Like Puijila, Tiktaalik roseae is known from #Nunavut 🇨🇦, has an #Inuktitut name (meaning "large freshwater #fish"), and records an important #evolutionary transition, this time from #sea to #land. #Tiktaalik shares traits with both fish and #tetrapods, making it a close relative of all of us land-living #vertebrates. This replica and model are from the #CanadianMuseumOfNature.

#FossilAdventCalendar Day 23
#FossilFriday

The #Canadian 🇨🇦 #Arctic has yielded some especially important #fossils documenting major #evolutionary changes. This 3D-printed replica of a #fossil from #Nunavut and displayed in the #CanadianMuseumOfNature is one of these. It's Puijila darwini, whose name means "young sea #mammal" in #Inuktitut. It looks like an otter, but it's one of the earliest relatives of #seals and #sealions - with still-functional hands and feet, unlike modern #pinnipeds.

#FossilAdventCalendar Day 23
#FossilFriday

The #Canadian 🇨🇦 #Arctic has yielded some especially important #fossils documenting major #evolutionary changes. This 3D-printed replica of a #fossil from #Nunavut and displayed in the #CanadianMuseumOfNature is one of these. It's Puijila darwini, whose name means "young sea #mammal" in #Inuktitut. It looks like an otter, but it's one of the earliest relatives of #seals and #sealions - with still-functional hands and feet, unlike modern #pinnipeds.

#FossilAdventCalendar Day 23
#FossilFriday

The #Canadian 🇨🇦 #Arctic has yielded some especially important #fossils documenting major #evolutionary changes. This 3D-printed replica of a #fossil from #Nunavut and displayed in the #CanadianMuseumOfNature is one of these. It's Puijila darwini, whose name means "young sea #mammal" in #Inuktitut. It looks like an otter, but it's one of the earliest relatives of #seals and #sealions - with still-functional hands and feet, unlike modern #pinnipeds.

#FossilAdventCalendar Day 23
#FossilFriday

The #Canadian 🇨🇦 #Arctic has yielded some especially important #fossils documenting major #evolutionary changes. This 3D-printed replica of a #fossil from #Nunavut and displayed in the #CanadianMuseumOfNature is one of these. It's Puijila darwini, whose name means "young sea #mammal" in #Inuktitut. It looks like an otter, but it's one of the earliest relatives of #seals and #sealions - with still-functional hands and feet, unlike modern #pinnipeds.

#FossilAdventCalendar Day 23
#FossilFriday

The #Canadian 🇨🇦 #Arctic has yielded some especially important #fossils documenting major #evolutionary changes. This 3D-printed replica of a #fossil from #Nunavut and displayed in the #CanadianMuseumOfNature is one of these. It's Puijila darwini, whose name means "young sea #mammal" in #Inuktitut. It looks like an otter, but it's one of the earliest relatives of #seals and #sealions - with still-functional hands and feet, unlike modern #pinnipeds.

#FossilAdventCalendar Day 11

The #badlands of eastern and central #Alberta 🇨🇦 are probably the best place in the world to find #hadrosaurs ("duck-billed" #dinosaurs like this #Hypacrosaurus in the #CanadianMuseumOfNature). While they're immediately recognizable by their broad mouths and (in many species) large crests, their #teeth also set them apart. Their large, grinding teeth allowed them to chew their food, a behavior that's the norm in us mammals but rare in other #animals.

Because I can't resist a local-#fossil-makes-good story, I feel compelled to post a follow-up to this #FossilAdventCalendar entry. The #PuntledgeRiver #elasmosaur is so well-preserved that casts of its #skeleton are a star of #museum exhibit halls from the #UniversityOfWashington's #BurkeMuseum to #Ottawa's #CanadianMuseumOfNature. Running across it in #museums is always a pleasant surprise, like unexpectedly meeting an old friend.