An extreme toast... to Extreme Mammals at AMNH

Inside the belly of the beast? Not quite. Exhibition staff and scientists at the American Museum of Natural History toast the completion of the new exhibition, Extreme Mammals: the Biggest, Smallest and Most Amazing Mammals of All Time from inside a re-creation of the extinct Indricotherium, the largest land mammal ever to walk Earth.

If you think youve seen this pose before, well, its true. The toast recalls a New Years Eve dinner of 1853, hosted by renowned English paleontologist Richard Owen, inside a life-size model of an Iguanodon. The Iguanodon and models of other dinosaurs species known at the time were the work of sculptor Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins, working from drawings by Owen, and destined for the new site of the Crystal Palace in Sydenham, UK. The celebrated dinner was reported in the Illustrated London News and Punch, among others.

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[FluffyBunniesOnFire]

@FluffyBunniesOnFire Correction, that party was thrown by Richard Owen for Hawkins.

[FluffyBunniesOnFire]

I'm gonna print a poster of that last image. Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins and William Buckland threw the best dinner parties back in the day!

[freddytayam]

I only fouund out about this because of cakeboss

[halodude446]

I see what you did there!

[amm019]

:) At least you know now

[melmothd]

@amm019

wow

[amm019]

I find the similarity to that and the Iguanodon model dinner funny and cool :D

[amm019]

indricotherium, also known as a paraceratherium or a baluchitherium. It's basically a giant, hornless rhinoceros.

[melmothd]

what is this animal?

[sabotogeable]

excellent