Today the Museum is co-hosting (with Simon Jackson Ipswich Museums) an online symposium about the geology of Suffolk at the time of the start of the #IceAge. Our museum collections play a crucial part in research in this area. #PlioPleistocene

We're focusing in on the exceptional collections of #PlioPleistocene #fossils in our East Anglian museums, and the potential they have for research study. First up, Simon Jackson speaking about Ipswich Museums geology collections

Wonderful talk from Prof Lister Natural History Museum on the East Anglian fossil record of mammoths, incl our Ipswich Museums very small steppe mammoth from the grounds of @StokeHigh from Maidenhall, Suffolk #PlioPleistocene The Sedgwick Museum Liz Hide

curator Sophie Stevens @CoIMuseums showcases Colchester Museum's fab Pleistocene Mammal collections, including those of Creationist Charles Bree, and fisherman Les Brand's material dredged from the Norfolk Coast more info here: cimuseums.org.uk/mammoths/ #PlioPleistocene

Sophie Stevens 'by analysing the worn shape of mammalian tooth crowns we get a signal of the type of vegetation they were eating' analysis by Juha Saarinen Geosciences and Geography, University of Helsinki demonstrates that 2 million years ago, Red Crag mammals lived in temperate woodlands #PlioPleistocene #PlioPleistocene

Picking up the theme of the #Pliocene temperate woodlands, Barry Hall GeoSuffolk has led an inspiring project planting living trees in #Suffolk, based on species identified from fossil pollen 📷GeoSuffolk find out more here: geosuffolk.co.uk/index.php/plio… #PlioPleistocene #Museums

GeoSuffolk Dr David M.G. Waterhouse Norfolk Museums East Anglia may not have spectacular rocky outcrops but today's talks have shown it has a rich and important geology. A huge thank you to all today's speakers. Recordings will be on Ipswich Museums website soon. Let us know if you'd like to see more events like this! 🦣

Read the Ipswich Museums blog here...cimuseums.org.uk/fossilteeth/

At our virtual symposium today we were delighted to welcome Dr Juha Saarinen from Geosciences and Geography, University of Helsinki using Pliocene to Early Pleistocene teeth to reconstruct ancient diets: cimuseums.org.uk/iceagefossils/ Suomen Akatemia | Research Council of Finland #palaeontology The Sedgwick Museum Liz Hide

Yet another dino has been animated. Not sure why I've all of the sudden got the urge to animate but I'm just gonna keep on going. #tenontosaurus #dinosaur #paleoart #cloverlyformation #blender3d

Good news! The number of critically endangered Union Island geckos has nearly doubled in just four years. 📸 Jacob Bock

Please RT & share to all those who might be interested Yvette Harvey Donna Young Herbarium Manchester Cardiff Curator @fungi_flowers Mark Nesbitt Simon Jackson Jack Ashby Liz Hide Rebecca Kilner Rebecca Machin Clare Brown RNG Herbarium Mark Carine Sandra Knapp @Scaphium

And people still feel the need to use tiger roars and elephant trumpets to create dinosaur noises

We are thrilled that our #Cenozoic collections, incl Plio-#Pleistocene #fossils has been awarded this mark of distinction-it is an international significant resource for studying the #iceage.

This #MammothMonday we are celebrating that we have been awarded #Designated status by Arts Council England for our Post-Cretaceous #Geology Collection, which helps us to understand the evolution of the #mammoths and their ecology. #collections #museums

Great new blog out today by Simon Jackson talking about the newly designated collections Ipswich Museums! wp.me/p2FTB9-1Yy natsca.blog/2023/04/20/des…

The ‘designation’ means the #Ipswich post-Cretaceous collection is now recognised as having national importance… great news, and thanks to Simon Jackson & colleagues at Ipswich Museums for this success 😊👏💐👏 NatSCA Arts Council England

Collection creation is a biased process. We need to be aware of that, and find ways to address it. Object biographies are one way to do that. They allow information, metadata etc. to be captured in a linkable way. #natsca2023

❤️ Jack Ashby on telling honest stories about natural history collections ❤️ #NatSCA2023

Vectipelta barretti: strict skeletal / skeletal reconstruction / life reconstruction #vectipelta #FossiFriday