Today's #MolluscMonday is the bivalve Callista chione. Shells collected >70 years ago are not uncommon in collections but now very sporadic. Recent records only from extreme SW England & Cardigan Bay. Burrows in clean sand, sublittoral & shallow shelf naturalhistory.museumwales.ac.uk/BritishBivalve…

I love nothing more than female Ento figures being highlighted - Mary de La Beche Nicholl

A really lovey talk by Sebastien Lherondel-Davies & Kanchi Mehta Swansea University - what/how they learnt & appreciating their own inputs 👊🤓

#LightningTalks #NatSCA2024 NatSCA

Kirsty Lloyd and students working in entomology Amgueddfa Caerdydd at the NatSCA Conference. Left to right: George on a 3 month PhD placement, Kanchi and Sébastien on a PTY year who presented yesterday and did brilliantly.

Beautiful big petrified tree trunk from the desert badlands of Arizona, on display in our Evolution of Wales gallery Amgueddfa Caerdydd - colour card top right is 6 cm tall #FossilFriday

Rhai lluniau o'r daith ddisgrifiad sain ddoe yn Amgueddfa Caerdydd gyda grŵp o Sight Life (formerly CIB) Abertawe.

Mwy o wybodaeth am y Teithiau Disgrifiad Sain ar ein gwefan:

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Some photos from yesterday’s audio described tour at Amgueddfa Caerdydd with a group from Sightlife Swansea.

You can find more information about our Audio Description Tours on our website:

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Late for #WormWednesday but we were busy moving our beautiful collection of marine bristleworms, which we use in exhibitions and outreach to their new home #Annelida #Polychaeta

Eodiscus and Tomagnostus, two examples of the tiniest trilobites – agnostids – from Solva in Pembrokeshire #TrilobiteTuesday 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🔍

“Roedd y profiad cyfan yn anhygoel, a bydden ni’n dod eto.” 🏛️🦖🍿

Mae amser ar ôl i archebu tocynnau ar gyfer Amgueddfa Dros Nos: Deinos ym mis Mai! Archebu nawr yma - bit.ly/3TTLFq0

“The whole experience was amazing, and we’d do it again.” 🏛️🦖🍿

Thinking of booking tickets to our May dino sleepover? There’s still time! Book your tickets now - bit.ly/3Q1NGiJ

Today's #MolluscMonday is the non-native bivalve shell Brachidontes exustus. Known from New Jersey south throughout the Caribbean, and south to Argentina intertidally attached to rocks. In Britain and Ireland it has been found in Gwithin Cornwall
naturalhistory.museumwales.ac.uk/BritishBivalve…

After 20 years working in natural history #museums , I still get surprised with things like, 'Oh look, there's a box of #penguins '. 📦🐧🐧

Top and side views of beak-like skull of Diictodon, a Permian ‘mammal-like reptile’ from South Africa. A plant eater thought to have lived in burrows to protect it from the desert heat #FossilFriday

Despite the 'mammoth' task ahead of her, our fabulous preventative conservator Gwen is up for the challenge! Gwen joined us back in Feb and has rapidly been getting to know the diversity of people and collections that make Amgueddfa Caerdydd - no small task!

Trinucleus from mid Wales with its distinctive pitted fringe around its head, lying atop remains of several more of its kind #TrilobiteTuesday

Today's #MolluscMonday tweet is the bivalve Bornia sebetia. Mainly sublittoral. A Mediterranean and southern species not yet in the British fauna but recorded from Portugal naturalhistory.museumwales.ac.uk/BritishBivalve…

This #FossilFriday a montage of some of the amazing geology collections Amgueddfa Caerdydd/ Amgueddfa Cymru | Museum Wales. If you want to see more then why not follow us, or follow the #FossilFriday hashtag

Calymene, the classic ‘Dudley bug’ and one of Britain’s best-known trilobites #TrilobiteTuesday