Crafty camouflage
Last week we brought you snails that attach all manner of pebbles, fossils, corals and shark teeth to their shells. Today we give you a newly-discovered fossil green lacewing larva […]
Category Archives: Earth Collections
Restoring the Great Lizard of Stonesfield
by Paul Smith, Museum director One of the unusual things about the collections in the Museum is that some of the specimens date back hundreds of years, and so have […]
Animating the extinct
This sumptuous video features on our brand new Out of the Deep display and brings to life the two large marine reptile skeletons seen in the cases. The Museum exhibition […]
Pieces of a plesiosaur
We’ve just opened a brand new, permanent display called Out of the Deep, featuring two beautifully preserved plesiosaur skeletons. Remarkably, both of these marine reptile fossils have skulls, which is more […]
How to build a plesiosaur, in 836 easy steps
Fitting together the remains of long-dead sea creatures is no easy job. A brand new permanent display, Out of the Deep, has brought together two Jurassic marine reptiles in the largest […]
Life’s big bang?
by Harriet Drage and Scott Billings You may have heard of the Cambrian Explosion, an ‘event’, starting roughly 540 million years ago, when all the major animal groups suddenly appear […]
What is a tree of life?
A phylogeny? An evolutionary tree? A cladogram? We see the branching lines of these diagrams in many museum displays and science articles, but what do they tell us and why […]
