Saturday, September 14, 2013

Extinctathon, art exhibit at Nabolom Bakery Collective


~Extinctathon~
below are examples from a show on display at the Nabolom Bakery Collective through October 2013



Arcuate Pearly Mussel
Epioblasma flexuosa, Unknown, United States


Atitlán Grebe
Podilymbus gigas
1989


California grizzly, California Golden Bear
Ursus arctos californicus
1922


Cuban Red Macaw
Ara tricolor
1860s
In 2005, a species of chewing louse, Psittacobrosus bechsteini, was reported from a museum specimen of the Cuban Macaw. It is thought to have been unique to this macaw, and is therefore an example of coextinction.


Passenger Pigeon
Ectopistes migratorius
1914
Photograph of a female Passenger Pigeon (Ectopistes migratorius) in captivity from the year 1898


Xerces Blue Butterfly
Glaucopsyche xerces, 1943, Sunset District of San Francisco, California





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