Chalcidoid wasps are fundamental to ecosystem dynamics and agriculture, and include many parasitoids of plant-feeding bugs. John Noyes' latest tremendous volume on Costa Rican species now freely available with 254 new species in 21 new genera www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/our-work/biodiversity/taxonomic-monographs-on-neotropical-hymenoptera.html

Reptile style - evolution and diversity of swimming in marine ichthyosaurs, plesiosaurs and others from Susana Gutarra @nhmscience & al https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/pala.12645

Plasticosis - the impacts of plastics on seabirds - new research from Alex Bond @TheLabAndField & @AdriftLab featured in the Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/mar/03/plasticosis-new-disease-caused-by-plastics-discovered-in-seabirds and the original paper https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0304389423003722

the Natural History Museum is part of the European #DiSSCo initiative: linking digitised natural science collections to create a large scientific infrastructure. An essential part of this is to link UK natural science collections in museums and other partners as DiSSCo_UK. We have created a video as an introduction https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPM7_nwhfp0