And animals in dioramas clearly can unsettle anyone ... This is what ecologists call a “novel ecosystem,” a habitat shaped by both people and nature. But these examples also hint at the ...

Habitat dioramas—the kind with a painted background, plants in the foreground, and an animated animal in mid-action ... the idea of an American wild, an ecosystem to be both exploited and ...

Restoring these two ecosystems was really just phase one. Now, the teams will take on labeling each diorama, but not basic descriptions of the huge animals like there were before. This time ...

And they’re contributing to the ecosystem ... specimens to emphasize the classification of animals and their evolutionary relationships, dioramas — characterized by rich backgrounds, detailed ...

Under the guidance of scientists, artists at the Peabody are building an ecosystem diorama — a model that merges a landscape ... Because the clay birds are less realistic than stuffed animal skins, ...

"The idea is to make a panoramic view look as real as possible," he says, "blending into the three-dimensional foreground where the animals stand." By contrast, the Habitat dioramas are more ...

Visitors can catch Anderson at work most weekdays from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Once complete, new signage for the dioramas will highlight the concept of change over time as it relates to human impact on ...