Category Archives: “fish”

EAVP 2016 at Haarlem’s Teylers Museum (1)

Posted on January 30, 2017 by Heinrich Mallison

After all the recent photogrammetry posts it is high time to get away from “stuff that somehow has to do with dinosaurs a little bit” and finally write again about dinosaurs themselves. Which is why I now will write about … Continue reading →

Posted in "fish", Conferences, historical buildings etc., history of science, ichthyosaur, lower vertebrates, Mammal pic, Mammalia, non-palaeo, raves, Reptilia (non-archosaur), Travels | 5 Comments

Juramuseum Eichstätt

Posted on December 8, 2015 by Heinrich Mallison

Everybody knows fossils from the Solnhofen limestones. At least one fossil. This one: the Berlin specimen of Archaeopteryx lithographica. (from Wikipedia under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license) But the Solnhofen Limestone is about much more than dinobirds, and in … Continue reading →

Posted in "fish", Aquariums, Dinopics, Dinosauria, ichnofossil, Lacertilia, lower vertebrates, Solnhofen Limestone, Theropoda | 7 Comments

Interspecific prey theft in extant theropod dinosaurs – Ardea vs. Spheniscus

Posted on May 25, 2015 by Heinrich Mallison

Golly, what a science journal-worthy title! An unnecessarily complicated and grandiloquent Ersatz for a simple “Heron steals penguins’ fish!” The Tierpark Friedrichsfelde in Berlin has started announcing feeding times a while ago, and the penguin feeding (Humboldt penguins, Spheniscus humboldti) … Continue reading →

Posted in "fish", Aves, Dinosauria, lower vertebrates, Maniraptora, Theropoda, Tierpark Berlin, Zoos | 2 Comments

Paleontology of SW Germany 3.1.3: even more Lias

Posted on December 16, 2012 by Heinrich Mallison

and we will stay stuck in the Lias ε for a loooooong time! Simply because it is so choke-full of wonderful fossils, and because I have tons of photos of them. The last post ended in the urweltmuseum fischer, so … Continue reading →

Posted in "fish", Holzmaden, lower vertebrates, Travels | 5 Comments

The Ozeaneum in Stralsund part 4

Posted on July 28, 2012 by Heinrich Mallison

Yes, you’ve suffered through enough of this – but don’t get your hopes up, I have some more photos for a final part. And 200+ photos more of the old Meeresmuseum to post 😀 Here’s the link list for the … Continue reading →

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The Ozeaneum in Stralsund part 3

Posted on July 21, 2012 by Heinrich Mallison

After two posts of architecture, whale skeletons, plastic models and stuffed animals, it’s finally time for some live animals! The Ozeaneum has plenty of aquaria, but I only have a handful of OK pictures, mainly because I was pushing a … Continue reading →

Posted in "fish", Aquariums, Aves, Deutsches Meeresmuseum Stralsund, Dinopics, Dinosauria, lower vertebrates, Maniraptora, Ozeaneum, Theropoda | 3 Comments

The Ozeaneum in Stralsund part 2

Posted on July 16, 2012 by Heinrich Mallison

Enough whales for now in this series of posts. Once you get up t the top level of the museum there is an exhibit on “The World Ocean – Diversity of life”. Sadly, as all exhibits in the Ozeanuem, it … Continue reading →

Posted in "fish", Aquariums, Aves, Deutsches Meeresmuseum Stralsund, Dinosauria, lower vertebrates, Maniraptora, Ozeaneum, spineless stuff (invertebrates), Theropoda | 2 Comments

Urzeit Park’s Palaeozoic

Posted on February 11, 2012 by Heinrich Mallison

We’ve had a look at Urzeit Park as a whole, and at all the Jurassic models, now is the time to address the next period – or rather, periods. I’ll lump all the Palaeozoic, because the total number of models … Continue reading →

Posted in "fish", Dinosaur models, lower vertebrates, spineless stuff (invertebrates) | 4 Comments

Places I’ve been, dinosaurs I’ve seen 5.2: more SMA

Posted on February 5, 2012 by Heinrich Mallison

Today, I would like to talk a bit about a part of the Sauriermuseum‘s exhibition that has little to do with dinosaurs. The museum is not designed to be one huge, monolithic permanent exhibition supplemented by a tiny “special exhibit” … Continue reading →

Posted in "fish", lower vertebrates, Mammalia, Sauriermuseum Aathal, spineless stuff (invertebrates) | 1 Comment

Stained-glass fishes: the rest

Posted on January 6, 2012 by Heinrich Mallison

Here’s the remaining 7 stained-glass windows with fish motives from the Berlin Aquarium. Enjoy!

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More stained-glass fishes

Posted on January 4, 2012 by Heinrich Mallison

Here’s six more of the beautiful stained-glass windows depicting marine life at the Berlin Aquarium. another non-vertebrate one. The Aquarium has a pretty cool tank with jellyfish, which I will post about soon.

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Stained glass fishes

Posted on January 3, 2012 by Heinrich Mallison

A rainy Sunday forced the wife and me to forgo the usual zoo visit with the kids, and head for the Berlin Aquarium instead (and what a sorry wikipedia page – added to to-do list). It is not a cheap … Continue reading →

Posted in "fish", Aquariums, lower vertebrates, spineless stuff (invertebrates) | 5 Comments