A Jurassic discovery on the Isle of Skye that tells us more about MAMMAL EVOLUTION 🎉 Our researchers have compared two skeletons of the same species to determine how mammals grew 166 million years ago 🐿️ Read about the findings published in nature: theguardian.com/science/articl…

Chicken in trousers, drawn in 1783.

The paper we wrote with kristin kivi on the work we did with National Museums Scotland on access to online collections is just out: User-centred collection metadata: from images as information to facilitating socio-affective connections emerald.com/insight/conten…

🔥 Hot off the press 🔥 Curator Yves Candela has contributed to research published TODAY into the Fezouata Biota in Morocco, a site of exceptional fossil preservation which reveals new insights into Ordovician ecosystems! doi.org/10.1038/s41598…

The last known #thylacine died #OTD in 1936. The scant bits of #thylacines we have in our #museums are arguably more powerful physical objects than any items on earth, palpably connecting us with the reality of #extinction. #ThylacineDay #ThreatenedSpeciesDay

With a fresh LICK of paint our giraffe’s tongue has been restored in the Animal World gallery! Did you know that a giraffe's tongue is BLUE and can be up to 50cm LONG? You can see the tongue for yourself from the mezzanine level of Animal World.

For #ScotGeolFest24 we’re running a new Drawn to Rocks workshop with artist Vojta Hybl Take inspiration from a tour of our geological collection and then have a go at sketching your favourite specimen under Vojta’s guidance! Details and tickets here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/drawn-to-roc…

#OTD John Graham Kerr (1869–1957) was born. Kerr founded the Department of #Zoology at the University of Glasgow and served as its first Regius Professor from 1904 to 1935. Visit the #Hunterian Zoology Museum in the Graham Kerr building University of Glasgow. Monday to Friday, 9am-5pm. Free entry!

Our #Hunterian Zoology Museum University of Glasgow is OPEN this Saturday as part of #GDODF2024! Come along between 10.00am and 4.45pm and explore the rich diversity of the animal kingdom. The Zoology Museum is located in the Graham Kerr building on the University of Glasgow campus.

See Scottish fossils from gastropods to pterodactyls on a behind the scenes tour of our Palaeobiology collections. Learn how and why we conserve and research these important specimens! September 30th, part of #ScotGeolFest24 More info and booking: scottishgeologytrust.org/event/nms_pala…

Thank you Jason Gilchrist for capturing our vertebrate preparators in action 📸 Last week they were conducting vital post-mortem sampling of a Humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae), that unfortunately washed up in Edinburgh, following entanglement.

#FlyFriday: Taxonomists have to do a great deal of detective work, as demonstrated by this new publication from Dr Andrew Ross, Dr Erica McAlister & team! 📄 "A fly in the ointment: the re-discovered holotype of ‘Trypeta’ cylindrica..." mapress.com/zt/article/vie… 📷 Trustees of the NHM

Museum folks, are you interested in boosting #biodiversity on your sites? 🌱🍄🐝 Of course you are, and we have just the event for you! 🗓️ Thursday, January 23, 2025 (2:30 - 3:30pm) #NMCCbiodiversity NMS Partnerships eventbrite.co.uk/e/enhancing-bi…

We are calling for tighter restrictions on fireworks following the death of Roxie, our endangered red panda kit, on bonfire night. Our expert vet team believe it's likely that three-month-old Roxie died due to stress caused by fireworks in the local area.

This Hogmanay, we're asking residents in our local area to refrain from setting off fireworks, following the death of our red panda kit Roxie on bonfire night. As always, we will do all we can to protect our animals from fireworks, including keeping them indoors and providing

My favorite part of every museum is the wet nightmares they keep on display at a child’s eye level.

Joan Procter was the 1st woman to be ZSL's Curator of Reptiles & Amphibians, appointed to this role in 1923. A talented designer & #artist, she often provided illustrations for her papers in Proceedings of the Zoological Society. More in our blog: zsl.org/news-and-event… #frogmas

I did it again! Jurassic Park with accurate raptors, a short part 2 #jurassicpark #blender3d

Do you work for or volunteer with a museum? Are you interested in supporting #biodiversity on the site? 🐞🌱 We'll be sharing our experience of doing just that! Join us Thursday 23 January (2:30 - 3:30pm): eventbrite.co.uk/e/enhancing-bi… #NMCCbiodiversity

Can you help care for the rescued lynx? Abandoned in a freezing forest in the Scottish Highlands, our charity is giving the three lynx a safe, warm home and veterinary care so they can recover. You can help to give these traumatised animals the chance to regain their health.