A lighthearted look at natural history via objects in the NHM London collections, hung loosely on a different adjective every episode. Podcast available on Spotify, Apple and YouTube: https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6w4ihPqk5_LOTuw-VhlaqEn1CctPqWGB
The Perfect Specimen
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For episode 29 we’ll be doing a Q&A. Let us know if you have any questions! This will also be the last episode before we go on hiatus 😭 so might be your last chance to ask those burning Qs about specimens, collections, NHM London etc. 2/2
And a great write up of the paper describing the fossil rhychocephalian that @marcehjones.bsky.social talks about in this episode www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/new...
Images for this week… no image of the lonely whale sadly but you can enjoy Whalien52 from BTS m.youtube.com/watch?v=N6o-...
We hope you’ve been enjoying our latest episodes! Previous episodes are available here: m.youtube.com/playlist?lis... and also on Spotify, Apple etc. 1/2
Slightly delayed publication of this episode for various reasons means we will have two episodes in back to back weeks! Exciting! This week please enjoy LONELY m.youtube.com/watch?v=uYIe... with the lovely @marcehjones.bsky.social 🐋 🦎 🐢.
And this lovely wasp! m.youtube.com/watch?v=HhWG...
Some sad podcast news :(. The final episodes are already recorded except the Q&A but sadly these will be the last episodes in the current format 😭. We’re all very upset to lose Josh from the NHM.
Happy Birthday to Sir David Attenborough! I think it’s fair to say everyone here at the NHM has a story about how he inspired them. He’s also a lovely guy! And we have some specimens named after him. m.youtube.com/watch?v=ToGZ...
Sphenodraco scandentis is a relative of lizards that would have climbed among the trees in ancient Jurassic forests.
Yes please do ask us any questions or @joshlukedavis.com will have to suffer through one of my statistics based digressions. Or poetry. You have been warned.
Want to know amazing fun facts about clams, bats and other critters? Check out this episode with @spissatella.bsky.social
They surely know their clams 🧪
welp, well this is it
not the way I thought things would go, but yesterday was my last day at the Natural History Museum
from dino digs to wombat butts, the last eight years have been a blast 💚 onwards!
Does the perfect museum specimen exist? What’s the squishiest? The most exuberant? Or even the most noxious? We’re taking a look through 80 million specimens...
For episode 29 we’ll be doing a Q&A. Let us know if you have any questions! This will also be the last episode before we go on hiatus 😭 so might be your last chance to ask those burning Qs about specimens, collections, NHM London etc. 2/2
What specimens could possibly be MISUNDERSTOOD? Let’s find out! With the amazing @spissatella.bsky.social! m.youtube.com/watch?v=lO1h... Please enjoy the real Megalodon! 🦇 🪰 🦟🐚
