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Sea Change

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  Sea Butterfly – Pteropod Limacina helicina
  Credit: Alexander Semenov

Gideon Mendel: Drowning World

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  © GIDEON MENDEL, Vilian Sousa da Silva,Taquari District, Rio Branco, Brazil, March 2015. C-print, 47 ¼ x 47 ¼ inches. Courtesy of the artist.
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  ©GIDEON MENDEL, Georgia Winegart, San Marco neighborhood, Jacksonville, Florida,USA, September 2017. C-print, 27 ½ x 27 ½ inches. Courtesy of the artist.
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  © GIDEON MENDEL, Jeff and Tracey Waters, Staines-upon-Thames, Surrey, UK, February 2014 C-print. Courtesy of the artist
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  © GIDEON MENDEL, Gideon Mendel at work on his Drowning World project in Chandajan Village in Assam State, India in September 2014. In those floods, 1,864 villages were affected,1.6 million people displaced.
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  © GIDEON MENDEL, From the Home of John Jackson, Toll Bar Village, South Yorkshire,UK, June 2007. Photograph. Courtesy of the artist.
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  © GIDEON MENDEL, Car Repair Workshop, Andrews, South Carolina,USA, October 2015. Photograph. Courtesy of the artist.

Permian Monsters

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  Sculpture of a Permian dragonfly, enormous compared to today’s dragonflies.
  Credit: Ramon Torres
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  Cacops was small compared to other temnospondyl amphibians, growing up to 18 inches long.
  Credit: Ramon Torres
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  Viewing reconstructions of a Permian beast with skin and without.
  Credit: Ramon Torres
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  Getting a close-up view.
  Credit: Ramon Torres
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  Permian Monsters is enlightening for both children and adults.
  Credit: Ramon Torres
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  Permian Monsters creatures Gorgonopsid Inostrancevia (left) and Scutosaurus (right)
  Credit: Gondwana Studios
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  An animatronic Dinocephalian Titanophoneus with a mural backdrop of its setting
  Credit: Gondwana Studios
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  Dinocephalian Estemmenosuchus from Permian Monsters
  Credit: Gondwana Studios
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  Titanophoneus is an extinct meat-eater that had a long heavy snout on a 2-feet-six-inch skull. See it in Permian Monsters: Life Before the Dinosaurs, Nov. 21, 2020–Jan. 17, 2022.
  Credit: Gondwana Studios
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  Vivid artwork brings to life the bizarre-looking creatures of the Permian period that predated the dinosaurs. See it in Permian Monsters: Life Before the Dinosaurs, Nov. 21, 2020–Jan. 17, 2022.
  Credit: Gondwana Studios
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  Before dinosaurs came on the scene, extraordinary and bizarre creatures roamed the planet. See some of them in Permian Monsters: Life Before the Dinosaurs, Nov. 21, 2020–Jan. 17, 2022 at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University. Creature facing left is Inonstrancevia; facing right is Scutosaurus.
  Credit: Gondwana Studios