age of mammals poster

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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I am reading* Beasts of Eden: Walking Whales, Dawn Horses, and Other Enigmas of Mammal Evolution*
by David Rains Wallace .

Fascinating. However, it has no color plates.

So, I have found a great little poster from the Peabody Museum:
https://digfieldschool.org/author/digfsadmin/page/6/

(scroll down a bit until you get to Artist Rudolph Zallinger’s famous “Age of Mammals” mural at the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History depicts the evolution of mammals over the past 66 million years. At 60 feet wide, it is one of largest murals in the world.")

I want that poster. But the Peabody says they are out. No luck on eBay or Amazon.

If anyone here knows of one for sale, let me know, please.

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Where would you hang a sixty-foot poster?
~VOW

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On a sixty foot wall. Duh.

:smiley:

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Not a poster, but you could pick up a copy of the 1955 large-format Time Life Book The World We Live In, which is a collection of the original magazine articles that featured Zalinger’s brilliant illustrations, some of them as fold outs.

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Lol. It is a smaller copy.

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Thanks, I found one on amazon pretty cheap.

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Oh, hon, while you were at work I kind of gutted the house and made it into a prehistoric diorama. Well, I had to, to fit this cool poster. But you’ll like that I toasted some Triscuits and Brie… your favorite!

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That was one of my favorite books when I was a kid. I still have my exceedingly well-worn copy. I was fortunate enough years ago to visit the Peabody and see the murals in situ.

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Was there a smart, white talking dog there? :stuck_out_tongue:

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I had this also. I didn’t know it was in Yale. Next time we visit our daughter in Connecticut I’m going.
You learn something every day around here.

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It is criminal that Age of Reptiles in the next hall gets all the attention.

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Yes, so read the book-Beasts of Eden: Walking Whales, Dawn Horses, and Other Enigmas of Mammal Evolution
by David Rains Wallace .