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Your BFF is back! - Zoology Object of the Week (May 9, 2011)

Posted 05/09/2011 by John Demboski | Comments
It wasn't so long ago that staff at the Museum had to contemplate putting our specimens of Black-footed Ferrets (BFFs) into the "extinct critters" cabinet alongside Passenger Pigeons, Ivory-billed Woodpeckers, and Carolina Parakeets. Never numerous, but widespread where there were large…
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DMNS Anthropology at the Tesoro Cultural Center Indian Market and Powwow May 14 and 15

Posted 05/05/2011 by Isabel Tovar | Comments
Check out our Anthropology Department volunteers at the Tesoro Cultural Center's 11th Annual Indian Market Powwow on May 14 and 15. The event will be going on from 10 am to 5 pm during both days and will be held at The Fort in Morrison, CO. Seven dedicated and knowledgeable Anthropology volunt…
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New Library Books!

Posted 05/03/2011 by Library | Comments

Planet Arctic: Life at the Top of the World

New to the library this week is Planet Arctic: Life at the Top of the World by Wayne Lynch. "Planet Arctic takes you on a journey across stunning landscapes to a world inhabited by polar bears, arctic foxes, …
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Jungle Butterflies

Posted 05/02/2011 by Frank Krell | Comments
Dr. Dean Fanara, a medical entomologist from Elk, Washington, donated 98 butterflies from the remote jungles of northeast Colombia that he had collected in 1966. Dr. Fanara had conducted research on malaria and Chagas disease for the Pan American Health Organization in the region of Puerto Rey…
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Jungle Butterfly - Zoology Object of the Week (May 1, 2011)

Posted 04/30/2011 by Frank Krell | Comments
In 1966, medical entomologist Dean Fanara, PhD, conducted research on malaria and Chagas disease in northeast Colombia for the Pan American Health Organization. It is the land of the Bari people who had defeated several Spanish expeditions in the 16th century. Dr. Fanara enjoyed his stay and m…
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Songbirds: Up Close & Personal: May 12 & May 14

Posted 04/28/2011 by John Demboski | Comments
Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory and the Denver Museum of Nature & Science have teamed up for a two-part experience designed to delight you and enhance your birding skills. Space is limited - to register contact Andrew Doll, DMNS Ornithology Fellow, 303-370-8387 or Andrew.Doll@…
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Astro: Kepler Orrery Movies

Posted 04/27/2011 by Ka Chun Yu | Comments
The Kepler mission discovered more than 1200 solar system candidates around other stars. Here is a video showing the orbital motions of all of the systems that show evidence of multiple planets as of February 2011: The size of each planet is not shown relative to scale to the size of their orb…
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Astro: Hubble 21st anniversary image release

Posted 04/27/2011 by Ka Chun Yu | Comments
To celebrate the 21st anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope, a spectacular image of the pair of colliding galaxies Arp 273 was released. Click on the image to get a super-enormous 4000-pixel wide version of the image (or this link for the full-size TIFF at roughly 8000 pixels across, and 1…
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Lakota Pipe Bowl and Stem: Anthropology Object of the Month for May 2011

Posted 04/26/2011 by Isabel Tovar | Comments
This pipe was made by Charlie Walking Cloud, a member of the Lakota Sioux tribe of North Dakota. In the 1930's Walking Cloud gave the pipe to US Army Corporal John Spare in a gesture of gratitude for Spare's longtime friendship and service to the Lakota that served in his unit during World War…
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Turtle-Rabbits! - Zoology Object of the Week (April 25, 2011)

Posted 04/25/2011 by John Demboski | Comments
You may be familiar with this odd, tank-like creature if you've ever spent some time in Texas. They can be hard to miss on the side of a road, dead or alive. This is the nine-banded armadillo (Dasypus novemcinctus), a member of the mammalian order Cingulata and distantly related t…
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