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Casgliadau ac ymchwil y Gwyddorau Naturiol yn Amgueddfa Cymru / Natural Sciences collections & research at Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales @Museum_Cardiff
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Today's #MolluscMonday is the bivalve Callista chione. Shells collected >70 years ago are not uncommon in collections but now very sporadic. Recent records only from extreme SW England & Cardigan Bay. Burrows in clean sand, sublittoral & shallow shelf naturalhistory.museumwales.ac.uk/BritishBivalve…
I love nothing more than female Ento figures being highlighted - Mary de La Beche Nicholl
A really lovey talk by Sebastien Lherondel-Davies & Kanchi Mehta Swansea University - what/how they learnt & appreciating their own inputs 👊🤓
#LightningTalks #NatSCA2024 NatSCA
Beautiful big petrified tree trunk from the desert badlands of Arizona, on display in our Evolution of Wales gallery Amgueddfa Caerdydd - colour card top right is 6 cm tall #FossilFriday
Rhai lluniau o'r daith ddisgrifiad sain ddoe yn Amgueddfa Caerdydd gyda grŵp o Sight Life (formerly CIB) Abertawe.
Mwy o wybodaeth am y Teithiau Disgrifiad Sain ar ein gwefan:
amgueddfa.cymru/dysgu/dysgu-oe…
Some photos from yesterday’s audio described tour at Amgueddfa Caerdydd with a group from Sightlife Swansea.
You can find more information about our Audio Description Tours on our website:
museum.wales/learn/adult-an….
Late for #WormWednesday but we were busy moving our beautiful collection of marine bristleworms, which we use in exhibitions and outreach to their new home #Annelida #Polychaeta
Eodiscus and Tomagnostus, two examples of the tiniest trilobites – agnostids – from Solva in Pembrokeshire #TrilobiteTuesday 🏴🔍
Today's #MolluscMonday is the non-native bivalve shell Brachidontes exustus. Known from New Jersey south throughout the Caribbean, and south to Argentina intertidally attached to rocks. In Britain and Ireland it has been found in Gwithin Cornwall
naturalhistory.museumwales.ac.uk/BritishBivalve…
Top and side views of beak-like skull of Diictodon, a Permian ‘mammal-like reptile’ from South Africa. A plant eater thought to have lived in burrows to protect it from the desert heat #FossilFriday
Despite the 'mammoth' task ahead of her, our fabulous preventative conservator Gwen is up for the challenge! Gwen joined us back in Feb and has rapidly been getting to know the diversity of people and collections that make Amgueddfa Caerdydd - no small task!
Trinucleus from mid Wales with its distinctive pitted fringe around its head, lying atop remains of several more of its kind #TrilobiteTuesday
Today's #MolluscMonday tweet is the bivalve Bornia sebetia. Mainly sublittoral. A Mediterranean and southern species not yet in the British fauna but recorded from Portugal naturalhistory.museumwales.ac.uk/BritishBivalve…
This #FossilFriday a montage of some of the amazing geology collections Amgueddfa Caerdydd/ Amgueddfa Cymru | Museum Wales. If you want to see more then why not follow us, or follow the #FossilFriday hashtag