Evelyn Cheesman #DiedOnThisDay in 1969. She was a British entomologist and traveller who collected over 70,000 specimens on her travels.

Solanum cheesmaniae, a species of a wild tomato is named in her honour.

Click on our link to learn more about her.
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“The idea that you could actually tweak the DNA of this mouse-sized animal into making this apex predator of Australia, it stretches imagination in many different ways,” says scientist Kris Helgen. cbsn.ws/3vROXBW

“So many people have the dream, 'If we could just get this animal back. Maybe it would help us think differently about extinction or the guilt that we might feel of having removed such a special animal from the planet,’” says scientist Kris Helgen. cbsn.ws/3TWYm3d

Don’t bury Mexico’s biodiversity capacity | Science science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Is the Javan tiger Panthera tigris sondaica extant? DNA analysis of a recent hair sample | Oryx | Cambridge Core - bit.ly/43APJjm

THE HUMAN DISEASE by Sabrina Sholts is the amazing story of human biology, culture, and society in the age of pandemics -- available on April 9th from The MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social! There's so much in this book for everyone. You'll want to read it cover to cover in one sitting.

Wowsers. This book is so thoroughly brilliant. The Winter Road by Kate Holden is the true story of the murder of an environmental officer by an Australian farmer, but it's much more than that: it delves deep into complex relationships with, and exploitation of, land in Australia.

Great news! Digitising the NHM to lead new national programme to digitise UK’s natural science collections. NatSCA will collaborate with NHM & project partners to support organisations to engage with digitisation opportunities. natsca.org/dissco-update

More words of support for the South Australian Museum and against cuts to its staff.
Once again, SAMA and its collections have been critical to my research and development as a scientist. And I’m happy to say that most of my important collections live there. Hopefully forever.

Ladybug becomes powerful foe after ‘stealing’ toxins from invasive insect | Science | AAAS science.org/content/articl…

Ten women in Australian archaeology humanities.org.au/power-of-the-h…

Meet Australia's newest mammals! Today we describe the western delicate mouse (Pseudomys pilbarensis) and elevate the eastern delicate mouse (P. mimulus). Like many of Australia’s recently described mammals, they’ve been hiding in plain sight. #ozrodents
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The 10,000-year biocultural history of fallow deer and its implications for conservation policy | PNAS pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

A new study argues that Perucetus, an ancient whale species, was certainly big, but not as big as today’s blue whales. nyti.ms/3Ihn2Op

Powerful new antivenom raises hopes for a universal solution to lethal snakebites | Science | AAAS science.org/content/articl…