As I tidy my house (which is a fairly rare occurrence), I found a third drawing of the taxidermy cases of Ipswich Museum from back in...

Having spent a lot of time in the newly re-opened Zoology Museum, I have recently been looking at Armadillos. Googling them, I see one of...

He (I am assuming it is a he) is easy to overlook. Many people wander by and don't even notice him. He is stealth itself, watching the...

A couple of months ago I had a fantastic behind the scenes tour of the Oxford University Museum of Natural History (and it is with their...

After many hours scouring the databases and determining what was special about this museum's stores, I spent a wonderful morning...

D'Arcy Thompson Zoology Museum in Dundee is one of many museums on my bucket list to visit. It's not the best, or the most comprehensive...

Look at these beauties! I think I'm in love! These gorgeous octopuses? Octopi? Octopodes? Beautiful aren't they? But they're in...

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....

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...