Fossil-finding
By Jack J Matthews, research fellow On the southern shores of Newfoundland in Canada lie rocks containing the oldest known evidence of large, architecturally-complex life. Deposited within the Ediacaran Period, […]
Category Archives: Earth Collections
The ‘birth’ of dinosaurs
by Hilary Ketchum, Earth Collections manager In April 1842, 175 years ago this year, the dinosaurs were created – in a taxonomic sense at least. In a landmark paper in […]
A moving story
For the past nine months there has been a lot of moving going on around here. Imagine moving house endlessly for weeks on end, but where your house is full of […]
A poetic ending
Steven Matthews, one of our three Poets in Residence, reflects on his residency at the Museum during our Visions of Nature year. It is sad that our poetry residency is […]
The power of real
Of all the questions that curious children ask about specimens in the Museum, the most frequent by far is ‘Is it real?’. It’s a surprisingly complex question, mixing ideas of […]
AAA (Adam Apprentice Award)
Last year we introduced you to Adam Fisk, our (then) new apprentice. He’s the slightly younger-looking one in the photo above; on the right is Pete Johnson, the Museum’s technician and Adam’s mentor […]
The stars our destination?
John Barnie, one of our three Poets in Residence, reflects on claims that the future of life from Earth lies deep in the Solar System… In a recent article in The […]
