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A new episode of Science on the Radio with Nina Morgan, featuring Museum research associate Peter Lincoln, discussing our new temporary exhibit, Breaking Ground. You can listen to the episode here!.

Crinoids are also known as ‘sea lilies’ and are animals related to starfish and sea urchins. In parts of England, the column forming the stem are made of of many small star shaped structures, and when the fossils of these stems are found they are called fairy money.

Mecynorhina torquata is one of the largest species of flower beetle in the world, and are native to tropical Africa. These beetles can grow to be about 55–85 millimetres (2.2–3.3 in), with males having the prominent 'horn' as seen in this image.

William Buckland and Mary Morland were a great match. When they married in 1825, he, a geologist and she, a scientific illustrator, had already collaborated to describe Megalosaurus, the world’s first named dinosaur.

How long have you been visiting the Museum? Our doors first opened in 1860 and our displays have seen many changes over the decades, but our skeleton parade remains! In fact, there are several items on display that have been in the main court since the early days of the Museum.

These glass lantern slides are from our teaching collections. Over the last few summers, interns have been working in the archive to organise and digitise thousands of slides. This teaching slide features an anomalure, a type of African flying squirrel.

Sperm oil is a pale yellow oil obtained with spermaceti from the spermaceti organ in the head of sperm whales, and blubber of the sperm whale. The spermaceti organ is unique to sperm whales, and while its function is not known to science, it is believed to aid in echolocation.

The emerald toucanet is the northernmost species of toucan with its' range extending through Northern Mexico. This bird typically forages on fruit and small animals in humid forests, often moving together in small flocks.

Explore our new (free) temporary exhibition, Breaking Ground. This exhibition explores what the colourful archives of William and Mary Buckland reveal about science, status and society.

Everything is coming up crabs. Did you know that a 'crab-like' body plan ahs evolved independently at least 5 times over the last 250 million years? The process of evolving into, well, a crab, even has its own term: carcinization.

RT @CityOxfordChoir: Our exciting composition competition closes on 22 November. Have your work performed at Oxford’s Museum of Natural His….

The Deadly Six are hanging from our glass roof, celebrating 30 years of the Oxford Vaccine Group (OVG). The OVG conducts studies of new & improved vaccines for children and adolescents and is based in the Department of Paediatrics at the Uni of Oxford. By A Palmer

The red slender loris is a nocturnal primate endemic to the island nation of Sri Lanka. These small (100-170g) primates are also unusually social for a nocturnal animal. slender lorises will often live in small family groups and are voracious hunters of insects.

In addition to the Deadly Six temporary art installation featuring viruses currently on display at the Museum, we are also a permanent host to this glass Zika virus structure made by Luke Jerram.

RT @CuratorWithout: Day 4 of #Museum30 is on #Habitat. I was super impressed with @morethanadodo's new displays, including this incredible….

This Halloween you can see a special display case all about Victorian spiritualism; a popular, yet controversial, movement from the mid-19th century that claimed spirits existed and that the living could communicate with them. From the sketchbook of Mary Buckland

RT @SanjeePerera1: Rather lovely butterfly display at @morethanadodo today.

RT @Bonzetta1: The Alphabestiary of Badly Stuffed Animals: Bonus Beasts: Day 26, B for Bear. This one's at the @morethanadodo and gets stro….

RT @KnowsleyPP: A huge highlight was an amazing educational visit to the Natural History Museum in Oxford with a wonderful group of familie….