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YMT Science Team retweeted
Happy (belated) birthday to Charles Darwin, the naturalist and geologist who forever changed our understanding of the natural world!🌍
Here's an 1859 letter from Darwin to geologist John Phillips on his upcoming book 'On the Origin of Species', from the @morethanadodo Archives!
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September 12th 2014, ten years ago today, was the very first day of the very first Yorkshire Fossil Festival.
Dr Lucy McCobb of @AmgueddfaCymru reported on the inaugural Festival for @ThePalAss. You can read it here: palass.org/outreach/yorkshir…
#ThrowbackThursday
ALT Schools day at the first Yorkshire Fossil Festival, September 12th 2014.
This is a truly excellent exhibition that everyone needs to see! The team have done an amazing job! 🦌🏹🦫 Congrats!
Our new exhibition ‘Star Carr: life after the ice’ opens today at @YorkshireMuseum! 🥳🥳🥳
yorkpress.co.uk/news/2420268…
Great news!
“Jewel of York” Tansy Beetle populations are shining! buglife.org.uk/news/jewel-of…
#ICYMI last week marked 200 years since the naming of the very first dino to be scientifically described - Megalosaurus! This dino would have likely roamed in Yorkshire, and you can see bones loaned from @morethanadodo, one with Mary Morland's handwriting on it, @YorkshireMuseum!
Today's the big day!
Happy Birthday Megalosaurus!
You might be 200 years old today but you don't look a day over 166 million years!
Read all about the first dinosaur and its Yorkshire relatives in our blog!
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#Megalosaurus200
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Hi, I’m Giles Miller, Principal curator in charge of Invertebrates and Plant Palaeobiology.
2024 marks my 30th year working in curation at the Museum so I have put together my top five tips for anyone starting a career as a curator.
naturalhistorymuseum.blog/20…
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Thanks to all who attended our AGM yesterday, it was brilliant to see so many people!
Thanks also to our guest speaker Dr Karen Hanghøj, and our poster presenters!
We hope you all made it back home safely!
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Today I finally got to visit the excellent Mary Anning exhibition @yorkshiremuseum!
It was so great to see the display of fossils found by my group of first-time fossil hunters!
Now open!🎉Mary Anning Rocks! Summer exhibition @YorkshireMuseum Something for everyone in this family-friendly display 🪨⚒️😊 Check out the online lecture series ⬇️ and online yorkshiremuseum.org.uk/exhib… Also: meet Mary Anning! Fossiliferous activities! Catch it before it's gone!
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Exhibition Announcement!🎉
Opening 14 July, our family friendly exhibition ‘Mary Anning Rocks’, will celebrate the renowned palaeontologist!
Learn all about Anning alongside a statuette of the fossil hunter, on loan from @MaryAnningRocks.
Find out more: yorkshiremuseum.org.uk/exhib…
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Today I had a fantastic time leading a fossil walk for a women's support group as part of @yorkshiremuseum's Mary Anning exhibit!
Providing fossil hunting opportunities for people who don't normally have them is a brilliant way to honour her legacy!
Look out for the exhibition @YorkshireMuseum from 14th July! yorkshiremuseum.org.uk/exhib…
The @MaryAnningRocks statue maquette has now reached @BucksMuseum in Aylesbury where it will be in residence until 7 July. After that it will move on to the @girlsingeosci event at @EarthSciPlymUni before travelling on to @YorkCastle
ALT A stylised map of England, Wales and part of Scotland indicating the locations where the Mary Anning statue maquette will be visiting during 2023 and 2024
ALT A display case at Discover Bucks Museum in Aylesbury containing the Mary Anning statue maquette and a collection of fossils relating to Mary Anning
ALT The sign hanging outside Discover Bucks Museum in Aylesbury
YMT Science Team retweeted
In 2022 @YorkshireMuseum acquired the entomological collection of Joyce Payne, a Yorkshire Naturalist. /
#InsectWeek
#InsectWeek23
ALT Joyce Payne in a black-and-white photograph. She is wearing a summer dress with a floral print and holding an entomological sweep net whilst stood on a large boulder in the middle of a river. Other boulders are nearby. Image from: https://www.yorkmuseumstrust.org.uk/blog/meet-joyce-payne-a-yorkshire-naturalist/
Can't wait for this! We'll be there with a Plesiosaur Puzzle to get everyone ready to welcome @MaryAnningRocks next month! yorkshiremuseum.org.uk/exhib… Come see us!
💥 THREE DAYS TO GO!* 💥
*Or is it 2.5? Either way, @YorksFossilFest is THIS WEEKEND!
Here's your full programme so you can get planning👇
yorkshirefossilfestival.co.u…
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200 years of history meets 200 million years of prehistory. What better place to host this year's Yorkshire Fossil Festival than the wonderful @WhitbyMuseum: thisisthecoast.co.uk/news/lo…?
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Happy Birthday to Alfred Russel Wallace, who despite not having the financial advantages Darwin had, independently discovered natural selection and laid the foundation for biogeography. He was also a supporter of women’s suffrage.
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Today is Epiphany! You may have heard of the star of Bethlehem, but what about the shooting star of Middleborough?
This meteorite fell to earth in 1881, crash landing into a railway embankment. It left no crater, just a 30cm deep hole with a steaming space rock at the bottom.
