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Tag Archives: insect

A grasp of the past

25 September 2019by More than a Dodo Leave a comment

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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Earth Collections, Life Collections, Research

Bursting into life

20 December 2018by More than a Dodo Leave a comment

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 […]

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Earth Collections, Museum in the press, Research

Bee beautiful

23 November 2018by More than a Dodo Leave a comment

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 […]

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art, Conservation, History of the Collection, Life Collections, Visions of Nature

Marvellous Mantodea

20 September 2018by More than a Dodo Leave a comment

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 […]

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Library and archives, Life Collections, Presenting...

Cicada serenade

17 June 2016by More than a Dodo Leave a comment

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 […]

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Life Collections, Research, Spotlight Specimens

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