The idea, the seed, the beginning, the ways To Musa, the motto “living together” is more than a fundamental rule of the mutual understanding between the humans and nonhumans who live here; it is the symbol of an educational and solidarity project committed to promoting sociability between the citizens in the cultural, biological, social, and […]
Paintings by Feliciano Lana
Feliciano Pimentel Lana (Kenhiporã, “a child of the drawings of dreams”) was born in 1937 in São João Batista, a village located along the Tiquié River. His father, Manuel Lana, was a desana, and his mother, Paulina Pimentel, a tukano. He has worked as a mechanic, a farmer, and a rubber latex extractor. In the 1960s, […]
Past present
The characters featured in the exhibition Past present: dinos and saurs of the Amazon invite us to think about the history of great animals that lived in the Amazon in three periods: 115 million years, 5 million and 11 thousand years ago. The fossils of these animals are marks of evolution and natural selection, which […]
Hooded tickspiders
Hooded tickspiders, from the order Ricinulei, are rarely seen organisms that live on the dry leaves that fall on the forest floor of tropical rainforests
Spiders
Easily recognized by their morphological structure – having eight legs and the body divided into two sections –, spiders are amongst the most common and diverse arachnids
Whip spiders
Whip spiders, from the order Amblypygi, are little-known arachnids that resemble spiders in spite of some distinguishing features, such as raptorial pedipalps with large spines used to capture their prey and the presence of two extremely long legs with sensory function
Whip scorpions
Whip scorpions, from the order Thelyphonida, are lesser-known arachnids that resemble scorpions, although they do not have a metasoma (a “tail” with a sting)
Opiliones
Opiliones, also known as harvestmen, differ from other arachnids because their bodies are undivided and they have a single pair of eyes, like mites
Scorpions
Scorpions are among the most popularly known arachnids, being easily recognized by their post-abdomen or metasoma (tail), which has a sting (aculeus)
Arachnids
