Fossilized poo harbors remains from mammoths, bison and big cats, including some of the oldest DNA ever reconstructed
www.scientificamerican.com
Scientific American
Sunbeam #Melbourne #Australia 15.6.1887. "I spent a busy morning reading, writing, receiving interviewers and trying on my fancy dress...The ladies of the committee sent me a lovely bouquet...ornamented with a little stuffed bird bearing a tiny model of the 'Sunbeam' on its back." #Brassey #1880s
Last year, I gave a talk at the Cleveland Museum of Art—and also saw this majestic funerary portrait from Hawara, Roman Egypt, c. 25–37 CE. The gold lips were likely to “transform the spirit” for the afterlife. www.clevelandart.org/art/1971.137 (NB: CMA images are Public Domain but these are mine).
Rabies worries ! Animal Smuggling
Do you remember these concerns from 1988?
Do you have any stories from this time, 🤔
Picture courtesy of @bexhillmuseum.bsky.social
A grotto by Ferdinand Knabb.
#Gothic #GothicArt #art
#RodentOfTheDay Chestnut Climbing Mouse (Dendromus mystacalis)
"Despite setting traps each day, and finding many other species, our target species remained unseen. For nearly a week, the Dendromus evaded our best baiting..."
#MouseMonday
Photos and info from: www.wildtrack.org/blog/the-tal...
#GlobalWindDay
The sound of the wind is one of the hardest things to capture well. Here's a few of our favourite wind episodes.
Wind at night
Episode 217 - Upland woods in winter gales
Tall winter trees in the Peak District in winter
> radiolento.podbean.com/e/217-upland... <
Researchers diving 7 kilometres deep in a crewed submersible have discovered a vast collection of whale bones, including fossils up to 5 million years old and species new to science
BAT-WINGED SERPENTS attack a farm girl in a painting by Viktor Oliva, a Czech illustrator. It appeared in National Fairy Tales and Legends by V. B. Trebizskeho (1870). These hybrid creatures are influenced by the medieval Basilisk or Cockatrice #FairyTaleSunday
""Over The Top."
A Bexhill Soldier's Experiences."
Bexhill Chronicle 15.6.1918.
#Bexhill #Sussex #WW1 #History #1910s
Annie Brassey
Sarah E. Bond
Sussex Heritage Community
The Ghost Monk
Coffin Boffin
New Scientist
Order Rodentia
Radio Lento
Bexhill Museum
Researchers diving 7 kilometres deep in a crewed submersible have discovered a vast collection of whale bones, including fossils up to 5 million years old and species new to science
