So sorry for the terrible quality of the photo. But it was on a behind the scenes tour, at night, taken through the door of a freezer....

I love the Grant's Museum. And I love their blog. And this week, I love their specimen of the week. A jar of moles. I looked up the...

20 years on from Jurassic Park, Jurassic World has been brought to our screens. (Yes, you read that right, 20 years! 22 years actually,...

"When I die, place my body in the hands of an anatomist." I suspect that prayer is said much less often than it should be. And especially...

One of the most engaging exhibits at the Oxford Museum of Natural History is this skull. It is a juvenile Western Gorilla, looking out of...

A late write up from a trip to the wonderful gem, Grant's Museum in London. Part of UCL, hidden somewhere near the Petrie Museum, I was...

Another of the wonderful, imaginative anatomy preparations from the Horniman Museum. This is one of the series of animals (bat, hedgehog,...

I never fail to be astonished by the weird and wonderful things out on display in museums that people don't even notice. And the infinite...

Years after first hearing about it, the circumstances have come together that, next week, I will finally get to visit the Horniman...