Oh oh here she comes

Thames seal blobbing along 😍

A female polar bear feeds on a sperm whale carcass in the polar pack ice north of the Norwegian archipelago, Svalbard. © Roie Galitz The 69th annual World Press Photo Contest

Metal as ffff

Harbour seal on beach

Harbour seal on beach at Rotherhithe Pier with Canary Wharf in background.

There’s a seal at Rotherhithe Pier!

Congratulations @beetlequeen.bsky.social on this remarkable paper towards resolving the evolutionary relationships of ground beetles!! 🪲🪲🪲

Harpalinae, one of the largest subfamilies of beetles in the world with ~19,000 species, but not as you know it! #taxonomy #systematics #entomology #MuseumCollections resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

#ImaginaryMuseum

Akseli Gallen-Kallela, Finnish painter, April 26, 1865 – March 7, 1931

Spring, c 1900

Oil on canvas, 52.3 x 31.4 in

Belvedere Palace, Vienna

Visit danieljlieberman.com to enjoy more great art

Earth and Moon from DSCOVR NASA's Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC) aboard the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) satellite captured this unique view of the Moon as it moved in front of the sunlit side of Earth last month. This view shows the fully illuminated “dark side” of the moon that is never visible from Earth. Ian Regan processed this version of the image to account for the Moon's motion. NASA / NOAA / Ian Regan

I hadn't seen this before. This is pretty remarkable.

Earth and Moon in one NASA photo.

ht @astrokatie.com

girl take us with you

The Bat Conservation Trust’s Nocturnal Garden at #RHS Chelsea Flower Show www.rhs.org.uk/shows-events...

WATCH: Artemis II is set to orbit the moon. Here’s what to know In a throwback to Apollo, NASA's Artemis II mission will send four astronauts on a lunar fly-around.

Artemis II is humanity's first flight to the moon since 1972. https://to.pbs.org/411ctbM

Stunning

New #Postdoc alert! This is a really cool project, working with a great team including the wonderful @drphilcox.bsky.social and @toriherridge.bsky.social. www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Distribution of a Non‐Native Amphibian in Britain Explained by a Complex History of Introductions and Translocations Aim Success in a biological invasion often depends on whether the non-native species can disperse from its introduction site and spread across the invaded landscape. The alpine newt, Ichthyosaura al...

New paper out today in @consbiog.bsky.social 🎉

How did the introduced alpine newt spread so widely across Britain?

Was it natural dispersal - or did humans help it along? 🧵👇

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

@jimlabisko.bsky.social @zslscience.bsky.social
@uclcber.bsky.social

It’s a cake (got there in the end)! Huge respect for hangover cake tasks ✊

It’s the economic use of 100s and 1000s 😂.

Aw it’s rather cute. Is it ….. food?

Tropic magazine team and sound artist Yuri Suzuki pictured in UCL’s Grant Museum of Zoology’s micrarium.

Thrilled to have Yuri Suzuki and the team from Tropic Magazine visit @uclgrantmuseum.bsky.social today discussing art, design and zoology for a forthcoming article!

X-ray image of a chameleon in a plastic pint cup during CT scanning. Chameleon is facing downward and a clutch of eggs are visible in abdomen.

X-ray image (ventral view) of a chameleon specimen in a plastic pint cup. Chameleon is facing downward and eggs can be seen in abdomen.

Image of chameleon specimen in plastic pint cup (with acid-free tissue packed around it) in CT scanner. The curly tail is visible out of the top of the cup.

Anyone for a pint of chameleon?

Best way to stabilise our freeze-dried specimen for CT scanning. And what a surprise to see that she has eggs! @laurabporro.bsky.social
@ucl-c4ia.bsky.social

We are so pleased that World of Wasps has made the shortlist! A huge interdisciplinary team effort with @waspwoman.bsky.social @cintiaoi.bsky.social @idrisadams.bsky.social from @uclcber.bsky.social, Datascape Realities, @leaveylab.bsky.social @eloygl.bsky.social from @ucl-c4ia.bsky.social!

NatSCA is pleased to invite applications to this year’s Bill Pettit Memorial Award. Up to £3,000 is available to NatSCA members to support projects including the conservation, access and use of natural science collections. Deadline 13th April 2026.

www.natsca.org/bill-pettit-...

For the record, this is my comment to the journalist on Colossal’s dire wolf.

I realize that to people outside the PNW this is just an interesting news item, but if you're in the PNW, where tracking orca pods is a local religion, this is basically like being visited by alien gods

Cover of Dolly Jorgensen’s Ghost Behind Glass book.

Dolly Jorgensen presenting a talk in UCL’s Grant Museum of Zoology.

This evening we were thrilled to host @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social @uclgrantmuseum.bsky.social and hear her insights about extinction and how it is presented in natural history museums in her new book Ghosts Behind Glass. A must-read for all nature and museum lovers!

Help a toad across the road – and five more ways to save these endangered amphibians Britain’s toads have begun their spring migration, putting them at even greater risk than usual. Here’s how – and why – we should look after them

Help a toad across the road – and five more ways to save these endangered amphibians

My resPEcts to Rev Jax and his family are immense. This is a man who inspired & gave personal time to me and my family. Ironically I could not attend his homegoing because it was the same day of a matriarch in my own family 2000 miles away.Real talk for real dude who did real things in real life.🙏🏿👊🏿

Visitor card with a drawing of the Grant Museum’s gibbon skeleton and the caption ‘why the gibbon chill like that?’ held in front of the specimen.

Love reading the visitor comments @uclgrantmuseum.bsky.social ❤️

‘Why the gibbon chill like that’?

Why indeed but also, why not?

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Not quite. Image shows an elongate stuffed skin of a hyrax on perspex mount on table. The legs stretch out from the body in a pose reminiscent of Superman.

Image of museum display case with various specimens including the newly mounted hyrax study skin. A hyrax skull is in the foreground and a wombat model and skeleton is in the background. It appears that the wombats are riding on top of the hyrax but we can assure you they are not.

We have lift off! The new mount for our hyrax study skin not only elevates it for pest prevention but gives it the super hero pose appropriate for this unintentionally aerodynamic specimen.

An historic black and white illustration of a paper nautilus floating on the ocean. There are boats, a city and hills in the background.

🎉 Huge news for BHL: The Field Museum is taking over the hosting of BHL’s website, servers & infrastructure, ensuring long-term stability and access for its 63+ million pages of open biodiversity literature. Learn more:
blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2026/02/tran...
#BHLTransition #ILoveBHL 🌍 📚 🧪

So sad to hear this news. I knew Hans as a colleague @romtoronto.bsky.social where he was always generous with his time and expertise.