On Friday I presented you with this skull for identification:
Quick as a flash SmallCasserole had it identified and discussed and not long afterwards Jake also managed to identify it as belonging to a
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I hope you all had an enjoyable Christmas, apologies for the late posting of the answer to Christmas Friday’s mystery object, but better late than never. I must admit that this was a bit of a cheat, because I have posted one of these before, but this time it had antlers and it was gift [...]
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On Friday I presented you with a mystery object that I recently had to identify myself:
The upward facing alveolus (tooth socket) for the upper canines is a dead give-away that this a
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On Friday I showed you this beauty:
I posed three questions about this huge snail to tax your minds: what is it, what does it eat and do you think it can fit into its shell? As usual, SmallCasserole and Jim were the first ones there – although not without some clues. This is a
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On Friday I gave you two pictures of a specimen from the Horniman Museum and asked you what it was:
Some good answers popped up but three of you managed to identify it as a
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On Friday I presented you with this delightful looking creature’s skull:
and asked you what it was. SmallCasserole and Jim vied to reach the correct answer, with the physicist narrowly beating the biologist to the solution using brute force of reasoning (rather than attempting a comparative approach). However, Jim did step up and suggest a more [...]
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Happy Monday one and all! Last Friday was a busy day for me as it was the day of the prize-giving event for the winners of the photographic competition that was part of the series of Darwin bicentenary events I have been heading up at the Horniman. I expect I will blog about that in [...]
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On Friday I gave you this mystery object:
and after a long bout of Q&A Fia managed to get the correct answer – it is indeed a
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On Friday I gave you a palaeontological mystery object and asked you to choose what you thought it was from a poll:
As it turns out, you did pretty well, with 60% of you selecting the correct category (with a couple of you making comments which went into greater detail). The object in indeed a piece [...]
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On Friday I gave you a bit of a change from museum specimens and presented you with this:
Everyone managed to get the identification to at least within the Order level (it’s in the Orthoptera), which is good going when dealing with insects. The hard bit came down to whether it was a cricket or grasshopper. [...]
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