Surface scan of the skull of a bear from the D’Arcy Thompson Zoology Museum at the University of Dundee.

Ursus arctos - Brown Bear. DUNUC 2030. Length= 43cm. Acquired by D'Arcy Thompson in Kamchatka, Siberia, during his Bering Sea expeditions of 1896-7.

Scanned with an Artec Eva surface scanner. The resulting file is exported as an obj. and imported into Zbrush. The texture is captured during the scanning process and converted to Polypaint in Zbrush.

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Brown Bear skull

[Histoire du site archéologique](http://sardisexpedition.org/en/essays/about-artemis-temple)
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Temple d'Artémis, Sardes

The wreck of Sir Ernest Shacketons Endurance was discovered on March 5, 2022 more than 3000m under water in the Wedell Sea.
Endurance sank in 1915 after it was enclosed and crushed by ice and was given up by the crew.
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endurance

The discovery was made by the Endurance22 expedition aboard the S.A. Agulhas II.
Official discovery press release: https://endurance22.org/endurance-is-found
Image Credits: Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust / National Geographic
Source: https://collect.wetransfer.com/board/sowc348bfrvti58ge20220307165300

Endurance Ship Wreck discovered

Species: *Miracinonyx trumani*

Pleistocene subfossil collected from a cave in the Grand Canyon during a 1936-1937 Civilian Conservation Corps expedition.

This fossil is in the collections at Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona. Learn about paleontology in the National Park Service: https://www.nps.gov/subjects/fossils/index.htm

Learn more about Grand Canyon National Park’s Centennial: https://www.nps.gov/grca/getinvolved/centennial.htm

American Cheetah

[1935.08.2777](http://collections.smvk.se/carlotta-em/web/object/1211274)
Stor ansiktsmask till incensario, antagligen tillverkad i form. Hela ansiktet rödmålat, över kinderna ljusgröna linjer och pannbandet likaledes ljusgrönt. Ett stycke av pannan samt högra käkpartiet saknas.

Svenska Mexikoexpeditionen med Sigvald Linné och Gösta Montell 1934-1935

Teotihuacan, Mexico

Mask- animation

This is a photogrammetry model of Monterrey A Shipwreck Ver 1.0. Data processing and design by the BOEM’s Marine Archaeologist Scott Sorset. More information about this wreck can be found at https://www.boem.gov/Gulf-of-Mexico-Expedition-Discovers-Amazing-Historic-Shipwreck/ or at the BOEM Virtual Archaeology Museum that can be accessed at https://www.boem.gov/Virtual-Archaeology-Museum/.

Monterrey A Shipwreck

Based on UAZ Hunter Expedition Edition, inspired by the SnowRunner game
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With this project I would to improve my rigging skills, work with animation modifier in Blender and discover Marmoset Toolbag for myself. Made in Blender and Substance Painter.

Full project: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/aRKa3q

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ie6aHNIu6Wk

Red Expedition (UAZ Hunter)

This is a 3D model of a complete Steller's Sea Cow (Hydrodamalis gigas) specimen on display at the Gallery of Comparative Anatomy at the National Museum of Natural History, Paris. The animal is named after Georg Wilhelm Steller who first encountered its kind during Vitus Bering's 1740-1742 expedition in the Bering Sea. Within decades of being encountered by European explorers, it was hunted to extinction.   

3D model was made in from 1309 images processed in Reality Capture. Additional processing was completed in Geomagic Wrap, InstantMeshes, Substance Designer, and Blender.

Steller's Sea Cow NMNH - Paris

The expedition version of the Hunter, based on the UAZ 2924 Hunter car, differs from the base car in Raptor paint, power bumpers and a roof rack.
![https://share.google/pnewmhvwyJIiKILkI](http://)

UAZ Hunter expedition

A photogrammetry scanned Arctic Fox Polar Expedition Collection ornament. 

Made using a Cubot KingKing Mini 4 and Agisoft Metashape Standard.

3D printing version https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:7291514

Arctic Fox - Polar Expedition Collection

Titanoboa is a genus of extinct giant boid snake that lived during the middle and late Paleocene epoch. Titanoboa was first discovered in the early 2000s by members of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, which–along with students from the University of Florida–recovered 186 fossils of Titanoboa from the Cerrejón coal mines in the La Guajira department of northeastern Colombia. It was named and described in 2009 as Titanoboa cerrejonensis, and lauded as the largest snake ever found at that time. The original type material consisted of thoracic vertebrae and ribs, but later expeditions collected parts of the skull and teeth.

Titanoboa Cerrejonensis

3D scan of the calcium carbonate skeleton of a stony coral (*Coeloria lamellina*). This coral was collected during the Austro-Hungarian deep-sea expeditions of 1890–1898. Onboard of the SMS Pola scientists conducted the first comprehensive oceanographic and biological studies of the Mediterranean and Red Seas. 

This specimen is currently not on display. 

**Species**: *Coeloria lamellina* Ehrenberg, 1834

**Inventory number**: NHMW-ZOO-EV-0008033

**Origin**: Pola expedition, Jeddah, Red Sea

**Collection**: Natural History Museum Vienna, 3rd Zoological Dept., Evertebrata varia Coll. (curator: Pedro R. Frade)

Find out more about the NHMW [here](http://www.nhm.at/en).

Scanned & edited by M. Preslmayr and A. Haider (NHMW)

Scanner: Artec Space Spider

Contribution to the digitization project „Einsichten in die gesellschaftspolitische Dimension des NHMW über die Jahrhunderte von der Prägung des Wissenschafts-Verständnisses bis zum Nationalpark in der Lobau“ funded by the [BMWKMS](https://bmwkms.gv.at/).

Coeloria lamellina (NHMW-ZOO-EV-0015176)

Port Glasgow born Harry ‘Chippy’ McNish was the carpenter on Sir Ernest Shackleton's ill-fated Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition of 1914–1917. He modified the lifeboat ‘James Caird’ enabling Shackleton and five crew, including McNish, to sail 800 miles over open seas for help. The modifications played an essential part in the rescue of the entire crew but sometimes forgotten in the retelling of this great adventure.

James Caird Lifeboat

**Tyrannovenator viridispinus: A New Apex Predator from Mongolia**

In 2024, a joint Mongolian–Japanese expedition led by Dr. Ayako Sato uncovered a remarkably preserved theropod specimen in the Nemegt Basin. Named *Tyrannovenator viridispinus*—“Green-Spined Tyrant Hunter”—this Late Cretaceous predator measured approximately 8 meters in length and bore a distinctive row of keratinous spines along its back and tail, likely used for display or intimidation.

The fossil’s integument revealed preserved chromatophores, suggesting a complex pattern of blue, green, and red pigmentation, an unprecedented find in large carnivorous dinosaurs. Its robust jaw structure and clawed limbs indicate a powerful ambush hunter, while its coloration challenges assumptions about camouflage in apex predators. The discovery of *T. viridispinus* marks a significant leap in understanding theropod visual signaling and ecological dynamics in prehistoric Asia.

Green-Spined Tyrant Hunter - dinosaur

For production-ready use, we recommend downloading the source format.The viewer version is intended exclusively for browser preview. In the original file, the following are fully preserved:✔ native scene structure✔ unsimplified materials✔ accurate texture maps✔ correct object namesIf you plan to use this model in production, download the source file.Two ancient columns typical of great Greek monuments or columns of a city lost at the bottom of the seaThe scene was created during the Blender Expedition event at Revolution School with Professor Ivan Stephan. In this event he taught how to edit 3D models create textures work with lighting and volume. It was a short but very comprehensive event.

Ancient Column

This 3D model represents a preserved section of the deck construction of the 17th-century Dutch fluyt (fluitschip) Double Dutch (NCN 34303), documented during the 2025 field campaign. The wreck (31m x 6m), discovered in 2022 in the Dutch Wadden Sea near Kornwerderzand, was subject to systematic archaeological investigation between 2023 and 2025. The surviving deck structure provides valuable evidence for the vessel’s internal arrangement and load-bearing framework, and contributes to the interpretation of the ship as a two-deck armed merchantman. Together with the other recorded structural components, it supports identification of the vessel as a fluyt measuring approximately 120 Amsterdam feet. 

Videoclip expedition 2023: https://youtu.be/WpbaO-ycnd8?si=_TVxGe5WP87Ea87s

©Stichting Archeos Fryslân

Double Dutch Fluyt: deck assembly

This model presents part of the keel and floor timber assembly of the 17th-century Dutch fluyt (fluitschip) Double Dutch (NCN 34303), recorded during photogrammetric survey in 2025. As a principal structural element of the ship’s bottom construction, this assembly provides significant information on building sequence, framing arrangement, and hull architecture. The wreck (31m x 6m) , located near Kornwerderzand in the Dutch Wadden Sea, has been provisionally dated to c. 1680 on the basis of dendrochronological evidence and associated material culture. In conjunction with the vessel’s recorded dimensions and other constructional features, this element reinforces the identification of the wreck as a two-deck Dutch fluyt.

Videoclip expedition 2023: https://youtu.be/WpbaO-ycnd8?si=_TVxGe5WP87Ea87s
©Stichting Archeos Fryslân

Double Dutch Fluyt: keel-floor assembly

For full functionality, we recommend downloading the source format.The Converted version is intended only for use in the web viewer. In the original file, the following are fully preserved:✔ original scene hierarchy✔ unsimplified materials✔ accurate texture maps✔ correct object namesIf you are going to integrate the model into a project, download the source file.Personalized bottles for the composition of an abandoned scene or the bottom of the sea The scene was created during the Blender Expedition event at Revolution School with Professor Ivan Stephan. In this event he taught how to edit 3D models create textures work with lighting and volume. It was a short but very comprehensive event.

Bottles

This 3D model documents the preserved stem assembly of the 17th-century Dutch fluyt (fluitschip) Double Dutch (NCN 34303), discovered in 2022 in the intertidal zone of the Wadden Sea near Kornwerderzand by Stichting Archeos Fryslân. The wreck (31m x 6m) was investigated through a series of diving expeditions between 2023 and 2025. Based on constructional characteristics, associated artefacts, and dendrochronological analysis of sampled timbers, the vessel has been dated to around 1680. The stem assembly constitutes an important diagnostic component for the reconstruction of the bow structure and supports the interpretation of the wreck as a Dutch fluyt of approximately 120 Amsterdam feet in length. 

Videoclip expedition 2023: https://youtu.be/WpbaO-ycnd8?si=_TVxGe5WP87Ea87s
©Stichting Archeos Fryslân

Double Dutch Fluyt: stem assembly

Space Shuttle Challenger (OV-099) was a Space Shuttle orbiter manufactured by Rockwell International and operated by NASA. Named after the commanding ship of a nineteenth-century scientific expedition that traveled the world, Challenger was the second Space Shuttle orbiter to fly into space after Columbia, and launched on its maiden flight in April 1983. It was destroyed in January 1986 soon after launch in a disaster that killed all seven crewmembers aboard.

Space Shuttle Challenger

> This flag, which hangs on the Museum’s 4th floor, is a veteran of the Museum’s 1920s Central Asiatic Expeditions to the Gobi Desert, where important finds included numerous fossils of ancient reptiles, and the first discovery of dinosaur eggs.

Image and text:
https://tumblr.amnh.org/post/90753779248/happy-independence-day-this-flag-which-hangs-on

Music:
https://archive.org/details/78_the-star-spangled-banner_victor-military-band-francis-scott-key_gbia0016211a/The+Star+Spangled+Banner+-+Victor+Military+Band.flac

Gobi Flag AMNH - Happy Independence Day 2019

Smithsonian source data can be found [here](https://ids.si.edu/ids/media_view?id=3d_package:d205464b-97c8-42af-8637-d943137e633d)

This media file is in the public domain (free of copyright restrictions). You can copy, modify, and distribute this work without contacting the Smithsonian. For more information and to review the 3D disclaimer, visit the Smithsonian’s [Terms of Use](https://www.si.edu/Termsofuse) page.

Madrepora horrida

EXPEDITION: U.S. Exploring Expedition  

OCEAN/SEA/GULF: South Pacific Ocean  

PREPARATION: Dry

TYPE CITATION: Dana. 1846. Zoophytes. 7: 472, pl.39, fig.2.

TYPE STATUS: Holotype

PLACE: Fiji, South Pacific Ocean

COLLECTION DATE: 1838 to 1842

COMMON NAME: Corals

PUBLISHED NAME: Madrepora horrida Dana, 1846 Acropora horrida (Dana, 1846)

USNM NUMBER: 291

DATA SOURCE:NMNH - Invertebrate Zoology Dept.

EDAN-URL:edanmdm:nmnhinvertebratezoology_16050

Madrepora horrida

An untextured model of Maelle's Stalum sword from Expedition 33. It's not fully detailed as it will be used as the LOD1 for the model inside Unreal

Stalum LOD1

Timex TW4B04400 Expedition Scout Chronograph

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