Friday mystery object #22 answer

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

Friday mystery object #22

It’s a snowy Friday here in London, the Horniman is looking otherworldly – in fact, here’s what it looks like from my office window:
But this brings us no closer to a mystery object. I was thinking of giving you an animal track in the snow, but that would be very limiting, since I only have photos [...]

Friday mystery object #21 answer

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

Friday mystery object #21

This Friday I’ve decided to give you something alive and without any bones, for a change:

So two three questions this week, what is this massive mollusc, what does it eat and do you think it can fit all that body into its shell?
Feel free to ask questions in the comments section below – and for those [...]

Friday mystery object #20 answer

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

Friday mystery object #20

Friday again, so it’s time for another mystery object. Any idea what this is?

As usual, feel free to ask questions in the comments section below – I will do my best to answer. Good luck!

Friday mystery object #19 answer

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 [...]

Friday mystery object #19

Last week’s mystery object turned out to be very easy for most of you, so this week I have decided to give you something a bit more taxing:
What do you think this freaky looking skull belongs to? As usual, suggestions and any questions below in the comments section – I will try to provide useful [...]

Friday mystery object #18 answer

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 [...]

Friday mystery object #18

It’s Friday and that means it’s time for my 18th mystery object. This week I have picked a skull (I can hear the groans already), but it’s a cute one and when I asked Melissa (who is not a biologist) what it is she got it in three guesses. I asked her how she worked [...]