Some golden tinsel to start decorating our tree with. The tiny, fragile Golden Petal worm Dysponetus joeli lives in shallow waters off southwest England and northern France #WormWednesday #MuseumAdvent

Great Auk is the only extinct British breeding bird. This is probably one of the last eggs found in Iceland and purchased in 1851 by John de Capel Wise from the Danish naturalist Niels Kjærbølling. It was then acquired by J. Williams and sold it to Canon Tristram for £35 in 1853.

Our wonderfully wormy WRIGGLE exhibition continues and it's delightfully squirmy for all ages. In our first 'WORM CASTS' (see what we did there?? 😁) Senior Curator of Marine Invertebrates, Kate Mortimer-Jones explains what those squiggly piles on the beach are. Swansea Libraries

Come work with us! 🔬👩‍🔬☘️🍄 Biodiversity Co-ordinator & Principal Curator Botany, National Museum Cardiff Closing date: 7 January 2022 (by 5pm) For more information 👉museum.wales/jobs/current-j…

Are you interested to learn about Care and Management of Natural History Collections? This is your course! Registration is now open for the new edition of our online course. More information and registration 👇 transmittingscience.com/courses/museum…

An egg of the Razorbill with an amazing story. It was collected during the first voyage of HMS Enterprise to the Arctic (1848-1849) at the Whalefish Islands, Greenland. It was donated to the British Museum by Dr John Robertson - surgeon to the expedition - in February 1850

Today's task is sorting through the tiny library in the SwanseaZoology museum. Here's a miniature thread of some of the highlights... 🧵

Mammalogists of twitter, could this be a cheetah skull? Or another smallish cat? Please tag anyone you think might know. Dr Ross Barnett was suggested...

Hello! Welcome to the Swansea University Zoology Museum! We house a wide collection of zoological artefacts, including both vertebrate and invertebrate specimens! We hope to show off just a few of these specimens in future! #natural #muesum #biology #zoology #nature #Nature

Say hello to Newton the Toucan! He is just one of the many bird species that can be found here at the Swansea University Zoology Museum! #toucan #bird #nature #skeleton #swanseauni #zoology #biology

Last nights trap saw 82 of 30 species! New record for the garden here. First privet hawk moth for the trap too! #teammoth #universitymothchallenge SwanseaZoology @BiologySwansea

Getting ready for tomorrow's @ReachingWiderSU outreach event in the Swansea University @swanscience Zoology Museum. Join us tomorrow for a game of Whose Skull Is That? #swanseauniversity #swanseauniversityzoologymuseum #bioscience #outreach #biology #zoology #mammal #skulls #teeth

We've had a fantastic morning of outreach with @ReachingWiderSU @swanscience in the Zoology Museum. Students learnt how to identify skulls and what the animals ate by looking at their teeth and eyes! #swanseauniversityzoologymuseum #Zoology #biology #outreach

Whose skull is that? Can you work out which animal these skulls belong to and what they ate? Share your answers below! @swanscience SwanseaZoology @ReachingWiderSU #swanseauniversityzoologymuseum #biology #Zoology #skulls #outreach

Looking for a 2-years postdoc researcher and/or a 3-years PhD student with a background in population genetics and statistical genomics. Please RT and DM if you are interested in analyzing MANY ancient horse genomes to assess the impact of horses in human history.

Today I visited @YPierhead and Welsh Parliament to see 'The Conference of the Birds: Curlew & Great Auk' exhibition by Sean Harris. Earlier this year I met with Sean to record a voice over for the exhibition so it was great to see the final piece. (1/2)

I also got to introduce my daughter to the great auk and tell her all about mummy's PhD. She was super interested, naturally. Future scientist in the making! The exhibition is on until the 19th December. Check it out if you can!(2/2)

In 2017, we discovered the whereabouts of the last known male #greatauk 👉 tinyurl.com/3nc8s74x Now we’ve confirmed where the last female resides… Spoiler: she’s at CincyMuseum! Read the full story here👉 academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/art… Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society #ancientDNA #museummystery

Career highlight being interviewed and featured in Science news 👩🏼‍🔬🧬 Fate of the last female great auk is finally solved | Science | AAAS science.org/content/articl…