Mary Mantell, was born #OTD in 1795. She is recognised for finding the first #Iguanodon tooth in 1822 in Sussex. She also made the illustration of Mantell’s work: “Fossils of the South Downs: or Illustrations of the Geology of Sussex”.
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I love the idea of a catch and release aquarium! At Ucluelet’s collect-and-release aquarium, sea creatures come for a good time, not a long time - The Globe and Mail theglobeandmail.com/canada/british…
Linen jacket by Agnes Richter, a seamstress who was placed in a Heidelberg psychiatric hospital during the late 1800′s and who embroidered her life story onto the jacket as an attempt to regain her identity #WomensArt One of the many true stories in the @womensart1 book
Got setup for a new #museumed lesson @ROMtoronto today! Students will be exploring pairs are species to see if they can figure out what ties them together! (Hint: they evolved together!)
“What color were Neandertals?”
For a hundred years, artists and scientists have depicted them basically like Europeans. Now genomes are providing new evidence about their pigmentation, but most is still unknown. A look at the developing science.
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Male cockroaches secrete a few drops of sugary fluid on their backs to entice females to mate with them. But since glucose is used in poison baits, some females have developed an aversion to the sweet stuff – forcing the males to change the formula for ... newscientist.com/article/236671…
I’m so excited to be able to share this - the cover of my upcoming novel for 8-12 year olds - WOLF ROAD! This image by brilliant artist Keith Robinson captures the excitement and adventure at the heart of my book. Out in August… @simonschusterUK
For those interested in helping to identify and confront residential school denialism, please consider sharing/using this primer Daniel Heath Justice and I wrote - rather than giving denialists more attention (which is what they desperately want): theconversation.com/truth-before-r…
Really interesting article about a researcher developing really profound and important relationships with Indigenous communities and truly incorporating TEK into the research.
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Did something new with my @romtoronto#museumed students today. I put a piece of paper in the middle of the table, between the #objectbasedlearning to encourage all students to contribute rather than one controlling the writing - it worked so well!
"People say “we won the war”, even if they didn’t fight and weren’t born. They say “we won the World Cup”, even if they didn’t play. But when you mention slavery, they say: “ It wasn't me. I wasn’t alive.” This contradiction is clearly unsustainable." bit.ly/3zdYxgq
Interesting article about "domestication syndrome" and how some species might have self-domesticated, developing similar features to other domesticated species phys.org/news/2023-03-a…
One in every four cowboys was believed to be a Black man released from slavery despite the stories told in popular books and movies although the most famous cowboys of the old west were white.
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Spring's softening ground reveals hidden treasures, like the mastodon tracks found by a farmer in Saline, Michigan in 1992. While dredging a pond, over 20 circular footprints were uncovered - the longest mastodon trackway discovered yet! Check them out at @UMMNH! #fossilfriday
Paleontology term from native Siberians:
Upon discovering tusks & body remains thawing from the permafrost in Khanty-Mansia region, local Ugric Mansi people gave them name mē̮ŋ-ońt (“earth-horn”), which evolved to become word MAMMOTH!
📷Sculpture in Khanty-Mansia
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