Swedish Stamps Celebrate Nature
2016-01-21 Thu
New from Post Nord is set of five stamps celebrating nature. The Swedish Museum of Natural History will celebrate its centennial by releasing new set of five stamps depicting representative samples from the Museum‘s collections.The museum is Sweden‘s largest, and it contains more than ten million fossils, animals, plants, fungi and minerals. All five stamps focus on nature and the environment.
The stamps include an extinct subspecies of the plains zebra, a newly hatched dinosaur egg, an 80-million-year-old flower fossil, a diving beetle and finally an image of a mammoth.
Celebrating nature and the environment seems like a good start to 2016..!
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