Lovely rock from Solva for #TrilobiteTuesday crammed full of mostly Eodiscus with the occasional Solenopleura. Separate heads and tails suggest this was an accumulation of moulted exoskeletons

The (very cool) results of my PTY year which I spent at Amgueddfa Cymru | Museum Wales as part of my Cardiff University School of Biosciences BSc have just been published with Springer Nature in Scientific Reports. What a great project to be a part of and it is great to see the results finally published. Link in below tweet.

Rapid morphological change in UK populations of Himalayan balsam - New paper by Amy Wyatt 🌱 and Amgueddfa Cymru | Museum Wales on the highly invasive Impatiens glandulifera. This research was part of Amy's Professional Training Year Amgueddfa Caerdydd and is published in Scientific Reports

A can of worms – what are marine bristleworms & why are they so important? Think you know worms? These might surprise you. Marine worms can be beautiful, ferocious, wonderous and spectacular. Find out more in our latest blog museum.wales/articles/2654/… Amgueddfa Caerdydd #WormWednesday

Don't forget you've got until 📅Friday, 06 September 2024 to get your applications in for the position of Head of Plant and Earth Sciences Amgueddfa Caerdydd nmwtest.ciphr-irecruit.com/Applicants/vac… 🌵🦕🌹🦖🌻🍄🌎

Just missing #WormWednesday, an interesting article in the The Guardian about marine bristle worms and their importance from Dr Ceri Lewis. They are amazing and wonderous animals and we are lucky to have two scientists Amgueddfa Cymru | Museum Wales who study them theguardian.com/environment/ar…

Impressive grasping appendage of Anomalocaris from the Burgess Shale. Originally the only part of the animal known, which led to its naming as an ‘odd shrimp’! #FossilFriday

Today's #MolluscMonday is the bivalve shell Yoldiella ella. Known from the Western European Basin between 47° to 50° N, and 09° to 16° W, at depths from 2862 to 4829m. Also known from the North American, Sierra Leone and Angola Basins at similar depths naturalhistory.museumwales.ac.uk/BritishBivalve…

Grab your tickets for this behind the scenes tour around the sea life collections Amgueddfa Caerdydd, tomorrow at 11 am 🐙🦀🦞🦑🦐🪼🐠🪱🐚

Two enrolled ‘Dudley bugs’ from our historic collections, one from Cardiff, the other unrecorded but likely from Dudley itself #TrilobiteTuesday

The monophyly of Magelona F. Müller, 1858 (Polychaeta, Magelonidae): Comments on Meißner et al.’s (2023) reinstatement of Octomagelona - New paper out now in Zootaxa updates for #WormWednesday mapress.com/zt/article/vie… Ana Claudia Brasil

Himalayan Balsam, a widespread invasive, adapts to new habitats: Rapid morphological change in UK populations of Impatiens glandulifera – collaboration between Amgueddfa Caerdydd & Cardiff University using herbarium specimens and local populations nature.com/articles/s4159…

This cute little scallop is Argopecten gibbus, native to the West Atlantic from Maryland USA to Brazil. Found rafting inside a small plastic toy boat on a beach in County Clare, Ireland. To find out more about rafting molluscs museum.wales/blog/2143/Raft…

These leaves from the Green River Formation of Utah look incredibly fresh, even though they came to rest on a lake bed 50 million years ago! #FossilFriday 🍂

Our new PTY student from Cardiff University School of Biosciences will be working on a new non-native bivalve to the UK with Anna. She is first getting some photographic skills under her belt with an enquiry on tiny Moerellinae species. Welcome to the world of molluscs, Sophie! #MolluscMonday

Diolch i Amgueddfa Cymru | Museum Wales am sicrhau lleoliadau gwaith i'n myfyrywr Cardiff University School of Biosciences o flwyddyn y flwyddyn. Maent yn brofiadau arbennig iawn, yn datblygu ysgolheictod a sgiliau ymchwil, ac o dro i dro yn arwain at gyhoeddiad academaidd i'n myfyrwyr is-raddedig. Prifysgol Caerdydd

🚨LAST WEEK TO APPLY🚨 You've got until 📅Friday, 06 September 2024 to get your applications in for the position of Head of Plant and Earth Sciences Amgueddfa Caerdydd nmwtest.ciphr-irecruit.com/Applicants/vac…

Stately Proetus, named after a king from Greek mythology for #TrilobiteTuesday

Ferocious looking Eurypholis from Lebanon, one of the fine fossil fish you can see in our Evolution of Wales gallery Amgueddfa Caerdydd #FossilFriday

Today's #MolluscMonday tweet is the bivalve shell Barbatia perinesa, originally described by Amgueddfa Cymru | Museum Wales from Muscat, Oman back in 1994. The type specimens are lodged Amgueddfa Caerdydd naturalhistory.museumwales.ac.uk/molluscatypes/…