Conserved seeds in the Germplasm Bank ensure replenishment and maintenance of the collections of living plants in the Barcelona Botanic Garden.
Lazurite
When several organisms are enclosed in a single piece of amber, this is referred to as syninclusion. Such pieces are particularly valuable for scientific r...
The "lumachella" shell stone is a rock mainly composed by fossile shells.
Great gray owl. Strix nebulosa, albinistic form.
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Chemistry Formula: C Museum ID Number: M37123 Image Number: ROM2008_9812_1
This specimen is kept in our collections.
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Knobbly seat star, or horned sea star. Protoreaster nodosus. Queensland, Australia.
Fossilized palm frond, tracheophyta. Found at Denver International Airport.
Common Name: Burns' Buckmoth Scientific Name: Hemileuca burnsi Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Arthropoda Class: Insecta Order: Lepidoptera Family: Saturniidae M...
Hematite, also spelled as haematite, is the mineral form of iron(III) oxide (Fe2O3), one of several iron oxides. Hematite crystallizes in the rhombohedral ...
Nutrizione
The Small Tortoiseshell belongs to the brush-footed butterflies ( *Nymphalidae*). Since its caterpillars feed on stinging nettles, it is also known as the “...
Butterfly; Ornithoptera priamus. Biak Island, New Guinea.
Chemistry Formula: Cu(AgCu)₆Ag₉Sb₂S₁₁ Image Number: ROM2008_9815_8
The *Nautilus* is the only surviving cephalopod with a permanent shell. This relative of the squid can retract into this shell and close it externally with...
The teal is one of the many species of ducks that live in the Lagoon of Venice. It is found in Veneto throughout the year, but non-resident populations are...
Epidote. 15 x 6 cm. Knappenwand, lower Sulzbach Valley in Salzburg, Austria. 1866. Epidote crystals are rare and there are only a few occurrences of them w...
"Questa roccia non si scoglie e non frizza!" esclamò stupito il geologo de Dolomieu (1750-1801) vedendo che quei campioni raccolti al Brennero (Val di Fler...
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Herbarium sheet of rabbitbrush, Chrysothamnus nauseosus, collected near Golden, Colorado 1987. Eating this plant can make you sick hence the species name n...
The ornithology collection is the largest in Germany and one of the most significant bird collections in the world.
Herbarium sheet of foamflower, Tiarella cordifolia, collected in the Great Smokey Mountain National Park, Gatlinburg, Tennessee 1980. Photo by staff photog...
This unassuming fossil, which has an age of 125 million years, represents the shoot of one of the oldest flowering plants known to date. The heavily worn l...
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Il quetzal splendente o trogone splendido (Pharomachrus mocinno De la Llave, 1832) è un uccello appartenente alla famiglia Trogonidae, diffuso in America C...
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A fossil mollusc that is a unique piece of the great Baron palaeontology collection [Paris], acquired in 1891 to form part of the initial patrimony of the ...
Common Name: Seahorse Scientific Name: Hippocampus sp. Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Actinopterygii Order: Syngnathiformes Family: Syngnathidae...
Green malachite belongs to the mineral class of water-free carbonates with foreign anions and is formed by the weathering of copper ores. It is used both a...
Gli atomi dello zolfo cristallino sono in genere riuniti in anelli di 8 atomi; tale struttura è detta cicloottazolfo (S8) e può assumere le seguenti forme ...
This mineral was used in the past as a pigment.
Propellonectes russeli, the imagined descendent of the Northern Giant Petrel (Macronectes halli), is 1m long.
