• The Mystery of Friedrich König’s Plaster Dinosaurs

    Tucked away in a staircase in the huge building of Vienna’s Natural History Museum, between the second and third floors, there is a small exhibit about the history of the museum that devotes a lot of space to the early history of the collection (and virtually none to those seven years after 1938 the Viennese…

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  • The wonderfully weird creatures of the Valkenburg Cave

    The town of Valkenburg is located in gently rolling hills on the southern border of the Dutch isthmus of Limburg, bordered by Belgium to the south and west, and Germany to the east. For centuries, people have been mining the rich sandstone deposits in the area, and have thus stumbled upon numerous fossils. Perhaps none…

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