Walter S. Pitt’s images have been used as an example Malcolm Smith’s seminal e book, The British Amphibians and Reptiles revealed by Collins within the New Naturalist sequence in 1951.…
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LET’S ALL DO THE KUNGA!
Element from ‘Conflict’ panel of Commonplace of Ur mosaic, c2600 BCE, depicting kungas pulling 4-wheeled battle-wagon (© Zunkir/Wikipedia – CC BY-SA 4.0) It is at all times good to…
2021 in evaluation for Hardbunnsfauna
One other 12 months of our “Hardbunnsfauna”-project; Invertebrate fauna of marine rocky shallow-water habitats: species mapping and DNA barcoding (funded by the Norwegian taxonomy Initiative) is coming to an finish.…
Enthusiasm isn’t sufficient. Who stated that about analysis?
I by no means met Sir John Gaddum. He died in 1965, shortly after ill-health compelled his retirement, three years earlier than my arrival on the Institute of Animal Physiology…
THE PICHU-CUATE – IS A TINY BUT TERRIFYING CRYPTO-SNAKE RESEMBLING KIPLING’S KARAIT ALIVE AND WELL AND LIVING IN AMERICA?
Two images of Charles Fletcher Lummis – a pichu-cuate eyewitness who lived to inform the story, actually, documenting this sinister serpent in his guide The King of the Broncos…
Throwback Thursday; HYPCOP workshop on the museum
The challenge of finding out hyperbenthic copepods (HYPCOP) is exclusive in a number of methods; we research a really unknown group of marine copepod species with little or no taxonomic…
‘communicate softly and carry an enormous stick’
With overseas affairs dominating the information for the primary half of the 12 months, now interrupted by incessant protection of the self-inflicted native difficulties going through the UK authorities, the…
THE MOUNTAIN OF THE MOON AND AN AFRICAN BUNYIP
Picture-still of the dingonek-inspired African bunyip featured within the Bengali blockbuster film Chander Pahar (© Kamaleshwar Mukherjee/Shree Venkatesh Movies – reproduced right here on a strictly non-commercial Honest Use…
Bryozoa-workshop at Espegrend | The Invertebrate Collections
February 14th -18th 2022 The Bryozoa are possibly not essentially the most well-known of animals, so let’s begin with a fast rundown: Bryozoa, also called Polyzoa, Ectoprocta, or moss animals…
Extra gentle on the circumstances of his demise on board ship off Jamaica in 1927?
I’ve been doing a little catching up studying. This time it was a guide from 2005 on the embodiment of physiological discoveries within the early many years of the twentieth…