A grasp of the past
by Ricardo Perez-De-La Fuente, research fellow Few creatures look weirder – or are cooler, in my opinion – than mantidflies. There are around 400 species of these small predatory insects […]
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Bursting into life
By Ricardo Pérez-de la Fuente, Museum Research Fellow One of the earliest and toughest trials that all organisms face is birth. In egg-laying animals, the egg shell that has protected […]
Bee beautiful
Our conservator Bethany Palumbo tells us how she restored a beautiful 19th-century papier-mâché model of a honeybee hive, created by master model-maker and anatomist Louis Thomas Jérôme Auzoux Although the […]
Marvellous Mantodea
In the latest display in our Presenting… series, collections manager Amoret Spooner takes a look at the wonderful and sometimes strange world of the praying mantis. Praying mantis is the […]
Cicada serenade
A Spotlight Specimens special for Oxford Festival of Nature by Leonidas-Romanos Davranoglou, DPhil student, Animal Flight Group, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford Anyone walking on a summer day in hot places […]
