Today is a sad day for #conservation science and for all the other fields which rely on museums, as the National Museum of Brazil in #RiodeJaneiro is destroyed by fire and with it its unique collections. Our thoughts go to our colleagues #MuseuNacional theguardian.com/world/2018/sep…

Each year, thousands of tarantulas are traded to meet the demand in the live pet market. As a result, many are being depleted from the wild. Learn about the innovative work of the CEC to protect American tarantulas listed in #CITES: bit.ly/2UUkoDv #WeLoveTarantulas

I think my Red-knee tarantula is trying to tell us something for Valentine's day? I expect it is love for the Commission for Environmental Cooperation’s ground-breaking work to help end illegal trade of North American tarantulas! bit.ly/2UUkoDv #WeLoveTarantulas

Outraged but not surprised that my employer (I'm a grad student), the American Museum of Natural History, is hosting a $30,000-a-plate Gala in honor of the fascist and genocidal Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro, a man who is forcing Indigenous peoples off their land...

Some great photos again by Thomas Shahan

Quality bird thread.

Researchers worldwide alert to #illegalwildlifetrade or unsustainable #wildlifetrade perils and challenges, and provide possible solutions to increase #sustainability of #trade @ELSenviron Warning: tinyurl.com/394xes9f Perspectives: tinyurl.com/7awd3sem

So 'Cuteoff' competition. Here's the clear winner, full throttle cuteness overload. #CuteOff #Biased #Invertsrock

A late entry by the 'Whip spider'. Not a spider, and the fine front-legs never act like whips! #StupidCommonNames

"Camel spider" aka "wind scorpion" or "sun spider", Not a spider nor scorpion, hide under rocks. #stupidcommonnames

Metro UK, if you're going to do more spider scare stories, learn what are actually spiders! Carri-Ann Taylor Metro

Paper on the revision of Central American Pirate spiders ... x.com/Zootaxa/status…

And I heard, as it were, the noise of thunder (etc): And behold, a black spider. #johnnycash #tarantula #Aphonopelma x.com/Gizmodo/status…

"That's Deadly! ... a journey to explore all of the things .. that can put your life in jeopardy" OR NOT !!! NatGeoKIDS x.com/iridopelma/sta…

Help these great people Save Frogs From Extinction! on Indiegogo💡 igg.me/p/1700171/twtr

Please help this great project being built by some very competent people! #herpetology #amphibian #reptiles #frog x.com/MyFrogCroaked/…

Could be a widespread one Heteropoda venatoria, else genus Barylestis or Palystes. The person i suggest - Peter Jaeger of Senckenberg museum

RE: "Spider with mouse" Thanks for avoiding 'scary' words in your spider article, but note they have chelicerae not mandables! Bonnie Malkin

#bestcarcass. Syntype specimen of Costa Rican horned tarantula Sphaerobothria hoffmanni Karsch, 1879. Doesn't look a day over 135 years old!