# age of mammals poster **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 5, 2020, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/age-of-mammals-poster/855125 "2020-06-05T22:42:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2020, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/age-of-mammals-poster/855125/1 "2020-06-05T22:42:43Z")
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/](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. ---
**Author:** ![VOW](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/vow/32/3043_2.png) [@VOW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VOW)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2020, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/age-of-mammals-poster/855125/2 "2020-06-05T23:02:58Z")
Where would you hang a sixty-foot poster? ~VOW ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2020, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/age-of-mammals-poster/855125/3 "2020-06-05T23:05:08Z")
> [@VOW](#): > > Where would you hang a sixty-foot poster? > ~VOW On a sixty foot wall. Duh. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2020, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/age-of-mammals-poster/855125/4 "2020-06-05T23:20:40Z")
Not a poster, but you could pick up a copy of the 1955 large-format Time Life Book _[The World We Live In](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World_We_Live_In_(Life_magazine))_, which is a collection of the original magazine articles that featured Zalinger’s brilliant illustrations, some of them as [fold outs](https://photos.app.goo.gl/MC7S64U23LURkLKHA). ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2020, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/age-of-mammals-poster/855125/5 "2020-06-05T23:52:17Z")
> [@VOW](#): > > Where would you hang a sixty-foot poster? > ~VOW Lol. It is a smaller copy. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2020, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/age-of-mammals-poster/855125/6 "2020-06-05T23:55:33Z")
> [@blondebear](#): > > Not a poster, but you could pick up a copy of the 1955 large-format Time Life Book _[The World We Live In](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World_We_Live_In_(Life_magazine))_, which is a collection of the original magazine articles that featured Zalinger’s brilliant illustrations, some of them as [fold outs](https://photos.app.goo.gl/MC7S64U23LURkLKHA). Thanks, I found one on amazon pretty cheap. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2020, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/age-of-mammals-poster/855125/7 "2020-06-06T01:09:58Z")
> [@VOW](#): > > Where would you hang a sixty-foot poster? 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! ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2020, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/age-of-mammals-poster/855125/8 "2020-06-06T01:37:40Z")
> [@blondebear](#): > > Not a poster, but you could pick up a copy of the 1955 large-format Time Life Book _[The World We Live In](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World_We_Live_In_(Life_magazine))_, which is a collection of the original magazine articles that featured Zalinger’s brilliant illustrations, some of them as [fold outs](https://photos.app.goo.gl/MC7S64U23LURkLKHA). 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. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2020, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/age-of-mammals-poster/855125/9 "2020-06-06T01:38:47Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > 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. Was there a smart, white talking dog there? 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2020, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/age-of-mammals-poster/855125/10 "2020-06-06T01:53:03Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > 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. 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. ---
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2020, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/age-of-mammals-poster/855125/11 "2020-06-06T01:55:26Z")
It is criminal that Age of Reptiles in the next hall gets all the attention. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2020, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/age-of-mammals-poster/855125/12 "2020-06-06T03:26:09Z")
> [@DrFidelius](#): > > It is criminal that Age of Reptiles in the next hall gets all the attention. Yes, so read the book-Beasts of Eden: Walking Whales, Dawn Horses, and Other Enigmas of Mammal Evolution by David Rains Wallace .