Tina Tryforos, Great Auk (Alca impennis) & Carolina Parakeet (Conuropsis carolinensis)

2015

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These photographs are from the dark Hall of Disappeared Species at the Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle in Paris which houses a collection of bones, eggs and whole mounts of animal species that are lost in the biological and ontological sense – that is, endangered or extinct.