Fossil plants from 'Organic Remains of a Former World' (1804) by James Parkinson, born #OTD 1755 🌱 Best known as a surgeon, Parkinson was also a keen palaeontologist and in 1807 he was one of 13 founding members of the Geological Society #Fossils #Geology #Archives #Library

Peltate leaves of Macaranga kirkjohnsonii sp. nov. , named for Dr. Kirk Johnson Kirk Johnson Smithsonian NMNH , who found the first specimens of these leaves. Note fungal lesions in B.

We aren’t always acting like we’re in a #WesAnderson film when retrieving material for appointments in the Library and Archives, honest! #BehindTheScenes Explore the featured Photographs of British Algae by Anna Atkins via our #DigitisedCollections nhm.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/deli…

A press release on our recent work: Dynamic plants: Origin and geographic evolution of cycads clarified medienportal.univie.ac.at/en/media/recen…

The next open day at Fossil Grove is tomorrow (Sunday the 16th July) from 12-4pm! Head along to see this awesome 330 million year old fossilised forest and learn about life in equatorial Scotland during the carboniferous period 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🖤

Very happy to share with our our article now published in an issue - iScience, Volume 26, Issue 8 doi.org/10.1016/j.isci… Natural History Museum Science at the Natural History Museum NHMPalaeobotany Frédéric Fercoq @ISYEB_UMR

Have you been enjoying #Earth on BBC? Tonight’s episode tells the story of the greening of the continents by plants and fungi. Keep an eye out at the end of the episode for our own Sandy Hetherington The Molecular Palaeobotany and Evolution Group and the images he took of the enigmatic fungus prototaxites! Biological Sciences | University of Edinburgh

The next open day at Fossil Grove in Victoria Park is tomorrow (Sunday the 20th August) from 12-4pm! Head along to see this awesome 330 million year old fossilised forest right in the heart of Glasgow 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🖤

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Are you a teacher looking to include more nature and climate in your lessons? 🌎 Explore the free, high-quality learning resources that we've developed with our partners for the #EducationNaturePark project! 👇 brnw.ch/21wE2Ey

TV camera at the fossil grove today. Much excitement! Glasgow City Council has agreed to fund £450,000 worth of repairs to the building to help conserve the fossils for future generations to enjoy.. a big result for geoconservation!

Interested in ancient fossil fungi, plant pathogens, the Rhynie cherts, and Beatrix Potter...? Look no further! New paper out in Nature Comms: rdcu.be/dsv6l

New fungus named after Beatrix Potter is the oldest disease-causing species found to date Paul Kenrick Alan R. T. Spencer Ester Gaya NHMPalaeobotany Science at the Natural History Museum nhm.ac.uk/press-office/p…

World’s oldest fossilised trees discovered along Devon and Somerset coast. 35 years searching for the oldest forests and they were only 20 miles away! You live and learn. Great to work with ⁦Seds group⁩ and ⁦William McMahon⁩ on this project. theguardian.com/science/2024/m…

Good to get a good few minutes of Devonian palaeobotany onto a plant-focussed edition of Inside Science this afternoon, if you can hear me through the man-cold. bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…

my latest research on #cycads has been published by Springer Nature in Communications Biology. Looking at cycad #leaves through time, we found they are FAR from living #fossils! This was funded by FWF at Universität Wien. Check it out for free! #openaccess nature.com/articles/s4200…

Fossil grove open tomorrow afternoon 12 to 4. Come along to see your trees and hear about the exciting plans to renovate the building and conserve these unique and ancient fossils.

Fossil grove open again tomorrow afternoon 12 to 4. Come along to see the trees and hear about the exciting plans to renovate the building and conserve these unique and ancient fossils.

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