Things I saw at museums

Dead Animals (The New Bedford Whaling Museum and the Harvard Museum of Natural History)

Pictures with crazy eyes from the Springfield Museums

This is the cat of my nightmares.
Help! Help! I can’t breathe! I’m drowning!
This tiger is up to no good
This is the guilty look my dog gets when he chews up my shoes, and this is the furious look I get when my dog chews up my shoes, and this is the spear… I mean…
This reminds me of those terrible tattoo tumblrs you look at when you want to feel better about your life
Colonial era paintings are either all about the crazy eyes, or something was very wrong back then.
“What? No, I was flying totally normal just now. Nothing at all suspicious.”
“I don’t care what you say, mom; I’m not staying in here another minute.”
This is the Cambrian version of a teddy bear.
“We’re all going to go extinct soon, aren’t we?”
True story: octopuses are descended from elephants wearing dunce caps.
This is a very untrustworthy sea-scorpian
“What? Me? I didn’t do it. You can’t prove anything.”
“Did I leave the oven on?”
There is nothing I can say to add to this image.
Even our distant ancestors felt existential angst from time to time.
“Um… hi?”
“I know I left my car around here somewhere…”
“My, what big teeth you have.” “All the better for…. ahhh! My teeth are so long I keep biting myself!”

Living animals I saw at museums and aquaria, which are like museums except different (Cape Cod Museum of Natural History, New England Aquarium, Woods Hole Aquarium)