#OnThisDay in 1881 the Natural History Museum opened its doors to the public for the First time.   🌿 Head on over to @nhm_digitise on Instagram where you can find out more about the ceiling panels in Hintze and their counterparts in the collection: instagram.com/reel/C55sWfyqr…

Report of a big cat seen on 14 03 25 around the #Stowmarket Football Club on the edge of Stowmarket, #Suffolk.

Probably a LEAST favourite example of a “living heritage” The nation will celebrate when this organised crime is finally shut down 🦊🩸

How five popular places in Suffolk got their names: #eastanglia #suffolk #essex #Ipswich #cambs #norfolk #colchester bit.ly/4igRmbs

Report just in of a "historical" big cat sighting from around 2015 - "dark" big cat seen in a field in Haughley, #Suffolk. Witness found "big cat footprints" on a muddy path nearby immediately afterwards. Sightings in Mid Suffolk are rare.

Report of a sighting of a black, leopard-like big cat seen near Eye, North #Suffolk on Wednesday 23 April 2025. Witness sent 3 photos - 2 of these are the usual phone camera photography blurs, the other is... rather interesting! More to follow.

The first episode of The Tomorrow People was broadcast on this day in 1973. Created by Roger Price, the seventies incarnation of the series ran for a total of 68 episodes.

Do these photos show a melanistic leopard sitting down near Eye, North #Suffolk? (Sent by a witness on 23 April 2025.) bigcatsofsuffolk.com/photos-of-a-bi…

Report of a big cat in #Suffolk - witness wouldn't gave me their name. Multiple sightings over the past 3 years of a "black jaguar" (melanistic leopard?) and kill signs of different species at a location near Helmingham Hall. Most recent sighting mid-April 2025.

Report of a big cat sighting - Morton Hall, Bury St Edmund's, #Suffolk, 11.20pm, 01 05 2025. "Light coloured... long thickish tail, big feet... about the height/size of a deer, but more plump with large ears." Walked slowly for two minutes, seen from window.

Skeleton of 3rd-century AD gladiator buried in gladiator's cemetery in York shows evidence of bite marks to the pelvis from "a large felid, such as a lion". First evidence for gladiators having fought big cats in Roman Britain. @tetzoo.bsky.social journals.plos.org/plosone/articl…

In other #Suffolk news, a drug smuggler who was found "wandering the streets of Beccles barefoot" after jumping into the North Sea off the coast at Benacre from a boat 🚤 loaded with £37 million-worth of cocaine was sentenced along with a co-defendant bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

New species of cat discovered in the Peruvian & Bolivian Andes - Andean mountain cat (Leopardus andinus). Slightly bigger than a domestic cat, grey colouration with brown rosettes, distinct facial markings, black bands on its thick tail. animalsaroundtheglobe.com/a-new-species-…

Seems to be an AI-generated hoax, capitalising on confusion around known Andean cat species. With thanks to @embroideredyeti and Sharon Hill.

“Highly aggressive” Asian hornets spotted in Kent, it is feared that high temperatures may draw them to East Anglia.

Can anybody identify this East Anglian font with #woodwoses (#wildmen) on it? I think it's probably Sibton, #Suffolk, although possibly one in Norfolk. Any ideas?

“Definitely Sibton”, with thanks to Simon Knott and Adrian Parker

June will mark the beginning of the third summer of wildcat releases into the Cairngorms National Park 🌄 After months of preparation, the eligible wildcats are now ready to help save their species in Scotland 🐾 Support their journey to the wild ➡️ savingwildcats.org.uk/support 🧡

UFOs 🛸 over Norwich! Norwich Evening News, 11 March 2025