A LOOK INSIDE THE ROYAL ONTARIO MUSEUM'S LIFE IN CRISIS: THE SCAD GALLERY OF BIODIVERSITY- CANADA

This gallery presents the diversity of life on earth and the significant challenges to its conservation and survival.  A must see if you are in Toronto, Canada. Image above: The beautiful pelagic oarfish

A skeleton of the long lost dodo bird from the Island of Mauritius.  This flightless bird is a symbol of human ignorance when it comes to biodiversity and ecology.  

The graceful tripod fish with its long, bony rays that stick out below its tail fin and the pectoral fins. 

 An Ivory-billed woodpecker, considered critically endangered and possibily extinct by the International Union for Conservation of Nature.