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Travel from water source to mouth to learn about the water inequality that lies below the surface.
FAIR WATER? now open
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He’s a 10 but he’s extinct
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Ooh here she comes… she’s an 🐜🐜👩🍳
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The Maid of Kent (Emus hirtus). A hairy bumble-bee mimicking beetle. Very few people have seen this species in the wild, but it probably still occurs at a few places in North Kent.
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It's been a long, lonely time but we are almost ready to open our doors once again. We and
@Pitt_Rivers
will reopen on 22 September. Booking is now essential, but entry is free. We're looking forward to seeing you. Get the info and ticket low-down here:
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In 1826 Mary Anning discovered a fossil belemnite (squid relative) with dried fossilised ink contained inside. Her friend Elizabeth Philpot revived the ink and used it to illustrate her own ichthyosaur fossil, which was thought to be the same age as the belemnite (200 mya).
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Verdigris historically used as a pigment tends to form on old pins. This painting was made using verdigris from the Hope collections
#sciart
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Squawk! It's
#NationalBirdDay
! Much as I'm tempted to promote myself (again), here instead is a little look at how we birds got here. Yes, birds are dinosaurs!
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On this day 162 years ago Charles Darwin’s Origin of Species was first published.
Let’s appreciate not only this seminal work, but also this photograph we have of Darwin about which he wrote: “I like this photograph of me much better than any other…”
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Happy birthday
#DavidAttenborough
! This is a cast of the skull of the plesiosaur Attenborosaurus conybeari, named after David by palaeontologist Robert Bakker in 1993. A bomb destroyed the original skeleton in Bristol during World War II.
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You don’t always have to get on your hiking boots to find some amazing geology. Here is a Devonian fossil fish 🐟 in a paving slab in Edinburgh, which has since been moved to
@EdinCulture
.
#rockdown
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Seth (6) is over the moon that the
#fossil
he found in the school playground is part of a 300-million-year-old brachiopod as confirmed in the letter from Earth Collections Manager Eliza.
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The Oxford Dinosaur that started it all...
Happy 200th Birthday Megalosaurus bucklandii!
#OnThisDay
in 1824, William Buckland presented Megalosaurus at a Geological Society of London meeting...
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Let's take a closer look at the *GIANT* E. coli that's landed here.
@lukejerram
's artwork is 28 metres long - 5 million times bigger than the real bacterium!
Discover lots more about
#bacteria
in
#BacterialWorld
from 19 October.
@UniofOxford
@BBSRC
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So, I'm famous. I'm a dodo. I was shot (). I'm unique. I'm in stories. And I'm handsome. Yet despite all this those museum people insist there is other good stuff in the collection. Yeah, whatever.
#MyHandleExplained
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We couldn’t help but jump on the Wes Anderson trend on TikTok! Give us a follow if you’re ever there (same @)
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Are you interested in natural history & science? We’re offering two paid research bursaries at the Museum this summer for students from under-represented backgrounds 🎉 Deadline is 12 pm on Friday 7 May
#DiversifySTEM
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Did you know that the we were the worlds first purpose-built natural history museum?
It was finished in 1860 and built as a temple to science. The pillars around the court are different stone from across Britain, each topped with botanical carvings.
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World's biggest bee, Wallace's Giant Bee (Megachile pluto), has been found alive for the first time in decades! Here's David Attenborough holding our specimen collected by Alfred Russel Wallace himself in 1858.
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Cetiosaurus femur with a crocodile femur for comparison, photographed around 1926.
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Did you know our
#FirstAnimals
collection is available in
#3D
on the
@sketchfab
app?! You can even bring the
#AR
, moving creatures into your home or your garden! Have some digital fun with the
#FirstAnimals
here:
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Today is the birthday of Victorian naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist, biologist, & social reformer Alfred Russel Wallace! Our blog has lots of articles on Wallace for you to discover
#BornOnThisDay
#Science
#Nature
#HappyBirthday
@ARWallace
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#MetGala
but specimens you can see in the main court:
Pedro Pascal as this long-horn beetle
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It was a pleasure to work with our lovely colleagues
@NHM_London
to bring the iconic Megalosaurus type specimen from Oxford to London today, for the 200 Years of Dinosaurs Conference!
The iconic fossil used in the 1824 description of the first dinosaur ever named
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Great news! The Museum will reopen to the public on 22 September 🥳🎉 There are joint, free tickets for us &
@Pitt_Rivers
, must book in advance here:
👉
Here's
@SteveBackshall
talking about his favourite building in the world...(our building!) 😃
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Just thinkin’ about how pretty we’ve always been 🥰
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2023 marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913), the trailblazing biologist, geographer, explorer, and naturalist.
We’ve been working hard in the archives to bring you something special to celebrate…
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It's National Insect Week! We're all about
#bees
this week, kicking off with a celebration of the wonderful diversity of bees. Big, small, orange... green! There are 270 British species and 20,000 described species worldwide.
@insectweek
#NIW2018
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Oxford's Museum of Natural History's insect displays get £1.3m revamp - BBC News
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The Museum has acquired an important archival collection relating to 19th-century geologist and theologian William Buckland. The archive contains over 1,000 items including letters, notebooks, family papers, prints, and artworks.
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Happy
#WomenInScience
Day from some of the fabulous ladies at the Museum! Thank you for all that you do to make the museum such a wonderful place 💕
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When you’re *too* excited about your new black light, but no one else gets it
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We're HIRING a Project Archivist
The Unearthing the Buckland Archive Project will see the cataloguing of the complete archive of William Buckland. Working to a strict deadline, you will be responsible for arranging, cataloguing and repacking the Buckland Archive.
Please share!
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3D computer models allowed palaeontologists to work out how trilobites rolled up 500 million years ago
#TrilobiteTuesday
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Thank you
@ChrisGPackham
&
@hedgehoghugh
for fantastic talk & book signing this evening, real champions of wildlife
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Happy 200th Birthday Megalosaurus!
We're pretty excited about it, can you tell?
Small tours (sold out!) with some of our Megalosaurus and Buckland treasures have been happening today, led by
@Dr_EmmaNicholls
and
@dczerkaszyn
in our library.
#Megalosaurus200
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You're at home. We're at home. You're on the internet. We're on the internet. Our dodos, doodles, dinos, and swifts are here: .
And our GLAMourous friends hang out here:
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This crab is red 🦀
These bugs are blue 🦋
We’re sending Valentine’s Day kisses from all of us to you! 😘
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Christmas Beetles emerge around this time of year in Australia, perfectly dressed for the occasion
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This is NOT A DRILL! The swifts have returned!!!
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Stag beetles are one of the most recognisable beetles in the UK, but there is an amazing variety of colour and form within this family which comprises around 1200 species worldwide.
#stagbeetles
#beetles
#insects
#nature
#Museum
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🎉We are delighted to announce that the Museum is reopening from 17 May following government guidance. You can book free tickets in advance from 4 May 2021, and all information about planning your visit can be found here: .
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Cleaner Kate Mellor, photographed by the ammonite case around 1958.
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Over the course of the next year we’ll be moving over 1 million British insects. When these specimens were originally collected entomologists didn’t know as much about conservation as we do now and may of our specimens are suffering e.g. from verdigris caused by old copper pins
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These beautiful specimens are wonderfully named 'picture-winged leaf moths'.
They're some of the last African moths we're photographing to help aid identification across the continent.
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All these mites came from this single silphid, or carrion beetle. This might seem unfortunate but carrion beetles can benefit from an abundance of mites who eat fly maggots which otherwise compete for the beetle larvae’s food. In return the mites get a lift to food sources.
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Today would have been Adam Sedgwick’s birthday, a pioneering geologist who named the Cambrian Period & later the Devonian Period. He personally donated this stone column, one of 96 that surround our upper galleries, of carboniferous limestone from his hometown of Dent, Yorkshire.
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Happy 200th birthday to the word ‘Palaeontology’! In 1822 Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville first used the word here (translation in next tweet):
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Merry Christmas from all of us at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History! 🎄🎅
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Thinking about how we might display the incredible Eve for our visitors. This 165m year old plesiosaur was discovered in 2014 &is 5.5m long!
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The Museum is looking for an experienced & dynamic person to join our Public Engagement team in the role of Community Engagement Officer as part of our HOPE for the Future project (Collection of British Insects):
#Museumjob
#museum
#hiring
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Three more followers until we are at 45k! We love getting to share natural history and the Museum with all of you 🥰 thank you for being here.
Maybe we should do something special when we get to 50k… what do you think?
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We're excited to announce that the full set of 3D models from our
#FirstAnimals
exhibition is now available for free download on
@sketchfab
, for use in non-commercial projects. What will you do with a fearsome Amplectobelua or a slippery Myllokunmingia?
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Every species of British bee - all 270 - ready for the opening of
@kurtjacksonart
Bees exhibition on 18 March.
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Ten year old Sarah has found a rare and important beetle in her school grounds! She was taking part in our
#ProjectInsect
outreach session and her find has now been added to the Museum's collections. More on the blog:
#HLFSupported
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The white blobs in this meteorite are calcium-aluminium-rich inclusions and are 4.568 billion years old. This makes them the oldest material in the Museum, but also the whole solar system! ☄️
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Squawk! I've made you all a
#MuseumAdvent
calendar, with seasonal specimens hidden behind the windows! You know the drill... I'll unlock one each day until
#Christmas
. Look out for teaser previews on Twitter, or dive right in:
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Have you seen, or heard, your first
#swift
of the year? The colony that nests in the Museum tower has been studied continuously since 1948, lockdown notwithstanding! Our nest-cam is now streaming, as the swifts return:
#MigrationWatch
Image: Mark Garrett
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"Peahens prefer peacocks with flamboyant tails... over time the peacock's tail has become more and more extravagant"
Watch
@theAliceRoberts
@morethanadodo
discussing how sexual selection plays into evolution.
Watch the full series here:
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This beastie is over 105 million years old! It's a type of spider called 'lagonomegopid' and is now extinct, but preserved here in amber (fossilised tree resin) which this unfortunate creature got stuck in.
This week we'll be looking at other ancient bugs fossilised in amber.
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We are reopening on 22 September and can't wait to welcome you all once again. To keep everyone safe, your free tickets must be booked in advance. See for information and booking.
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Meet the famous Oxford Dodo… in the flesh 🦤
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These are just a few of the 1,000 polished slabs that make up the Corsi Collection. Italian lawyer Faustino Corsi (1771-1846) created this collection from stones collected across Rome as well as other places like Russia, Afghanistan, Madagascar, and Canada.
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Merry Birthmas to
#naturalist
#CharlesDarwin
#bornthisday
in 1809.Darwin famously worked a four-hour work day, & wrote in his autobiography that if he lived his life over again, he would “read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.”
#science
#nature
#oumnh
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We're excited to announce that the full set of 3D models from our
#FirstAnimals
exhibition is now available for free download on
@sketchfab
, for use in non-commercial projects. What will you do with a fearsome Amplectobelua or a slippery Myllokunmingia?
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Applications are NOW OPEN!
The Undergraduate Bursary Scheme provides students from underrepresented backgrounds with 5-6 weeks of hands-on work experience in a museum.
Projects cover natural sciences research, museum collections management, and public engagement with science.
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What’s that next to the dinosaurs?! 🦕 🦖 You can now plant the creatures from our
#FirstAnimals
#exhibition
anywhere, thanks to the
@sketchfab
app! Here's a 'How To' thread!⬇️
#AR
#augmentedreality
#Museum
#fun
#HowTo
#sketchfab
#tech
#heritage
#culture
#scicomm
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!Holy Moly, this is my 10,000th squawk! You lucky people.
When I'm not enlightening you lot I hang out with famous people. Here's me chewing the fat with William Wordsworth.
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We're getting excited now! Our brand new exhibition
#BacterialWorld
is opening on 19 October and we've got a few sneak previews for you.
PS - can you guess the jingle for the title? You know that we are living...
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1/2 This is the sacrum of the carnivorous dinosaur Megalosaurus bucklandii from Stonesfield, Oxfordshire. The sacrum has five vertebrae fused together. This was one of the features that made Richard Owen realise that...
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Watch
@theAliceRoberts
@morethanadodo
talking about Charles Darwin and his Origin of Species, published just 1 year before our Museum opened.
Watch the full series to see Alice explaining Museum displays that discuss evolution:
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Okay everyone, Head of Toilet Facts says this may have come from an unreliable penguin and will be replaced by a different scatological fact asap. It's safe to eat Antarctic ice.
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Sunday museum aesthetic ✨
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Brilliant opportunity!📢The Museum &
@UniversityLeeds
have announced a fully-funded
#PhD
#studentship
from October 2021 focused on women in
#geology
during the 19th century. Find out more:
#WomenInScience
#WomenInSTEM
Image: landscape by Mary Morland
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Our Undergraduate Bursary Scheme applications are NOW OPEN!
This Scheme is designed to give undergrads hands-on experience working in a museum of natural history!
PLEASE SHARE
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Yet more lovely light on the museum today...
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THREAD: The Museum's
#architecture
- a Temple of Science! Our
#Museum
is just as interesting as the specimens it holds...
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Periechocrinus costatus is a fascinating species of crinoid, commonly known as a sea lily, that lived during the Paleozoic era, approximately 345 million years ago.
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This Thursday is the lat day to see Mary Anning at the Museum! Come see her before she leaves for the rest of her whirlwind tour!
@MaryAnningRocks
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It is that time of year again! That’s right, it is
#museum30
time. The first prompt is
#Museum
.
This Museum opened its doors in 1860 and was established to bring together scientific teaching and collections from across
@UniofOxford
under one (beautiful) roof.
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Since the grisly manner of my demise is getting lots of attention today, here's some good news: Our conservator Jackie has repaired my eye orbit which was in five pieces! All reconstructed with a low percentage, reversible adhesive and mounted on a new piece of foam board. Mmm.
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This lovely thing - Stratesaurus taylori - is one of the oldest plesiosaur fossils in the world, from Early Jurassic (~200 million years).
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Happy
#WorldBeeDay
! This bee pictured is Megachile pluto, or Wallace's giant bee (discovered by the naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace). It is one of our greatest treasures, & is the biggest bee ever discovered!
Find out more here:
#WorldBeeDay2020
#bees
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We're pleased to announce two new paid research bursaries at the Museum this Summer for students from under-represented backgrounds. Deadline is 12pm on Friday 7th May. Please help us spread the word!
#DiversifySTEM
➡️
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IT’S TIME! 🎉Time for what you might say? Time for the annual
#BeeFlyWatch
to begin! We can hear your squeals of joy from here, as this timely reminder makes its way into your feed.
@SoldierfliesRS
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We’ve got an array of undergraduate bursary projects listed on our website NOW!
Each bursary covers a full-time, six-week project. You will receive a total stipend around £2,250 towards your living expenses, and accommodation will be provided free of charge at the Museum lodge.
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Happy
#DarwinDay
! Yes,
#lockdown
3 is long but imagine being stuck on a boat for years with no TV, no internet & definitely no Netflix. Luckily, when
#CharlesDarwin
set sail on the HMS Beagle in 1831 he had access to a library of over 400
#books
on the ship...
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Sectioned shells from the zoology collection to show growth patterns across gastropod molluscs formerly used in display and teaching
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Morning! In case you're missing this cute face...🦖
#naturalhistory
#conservation
#science
#dinosaur
#trex
#tyrannosaurus
#nature
#museum
#oxford
#oxforduniversitymuseumofnaturalhistory
#oumnh
#scicomm
#MondayMotivation
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How many steps does it take to build a new plesiosaur display? We reckon it's at least 836!
Our brand new permanent exhibit
#OutoftheDeep
is finished! Here's a timelapse of one specimen being installed. And a blog post about how it happened:
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Good morning.
I defy you not to find me cute.
For everyone who needs a Christmas Diplodocus in their life, WE HAVE DELIVERED.
Available from the Museum shop from now until the end of the year.
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Did you know stegosaurs used to roam around
#Oxfordshire
? This is a partial dorsal vertebra of a
#stegosaur
found near Chipping Norton. From the Middle Jurassic (Bathonian), around 167 million years old.
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Hey everyone, it's
#WeevilWednesday
. It is, really - we didn't just make that up. Oh no. So here are some of our weevils. For Wednesday.
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