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George McGavin and Museum researcher Leonidas-Romanos Davranoglou have recently published the second edition of Essential Entomology. This book is accessible introduction to entomology for anyone interested in the natural world.
This book is meant to be accessible to everyone. Undergraduate students in biology, forestry, and agriculture will find this a particularly helpful read. It will also be particularly enjoyable for naturalists and entomology hobbyists.
In our new display case ‘Life and Water’ you can explore the world of the deepest oceans. There are some unique items in this case including three deep-sea vent chimneys. When super-heated mineral rich waters rise to meet cold water the sulfide mineral deposits solidify and form chimneys home to some of the planet’s most incredible forms of life.
In this case you can see things like the deep-sea mussels which lived alongside out black smoker vent chimney at 1700m below the oceans surface.
What do Alfred Russel Wallace, his sister, and spirits have to do with the Museum?
This week was the 200th anniversary of Alfred Russel Wallace’s birth, the man who independently came up with the idea of evolution concurrently with Charles Darwin. But today also happens to be Friday the 13th!
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The fossils discussed in this paper are all of immature insects including: a larva, a pupae, and an egg cluster. While these examples of immature life stages are not uncommon in the fossil evidence, there is a lack of example in before the Middle Triassic.
The fossilised larva studied here lived in terrestrial areas near water pools, which provide valuable insight into insect colonisation of Triassic aquatic ecosystems, and show its respiratory system in exquisite detail.
A team of researchers, including the Museum’s own Dr. Perez-de la Fuente, recently described the oldest currently known fossils of the insect group Diptera (including true flies, midges, mosquitoes, etc.) from the Triassic of Mallorca (Spain), about 247 million years ago.
Learn more:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/spp2.1472
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Did you know the first dinosaur ever known to science was discovered here in Oxfordshire? A visit will let you see Megalosaurus Bucklandii footprints on our front lawn, the famous jawbone that changed the world, as well as many other fossils from this amazing creature
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