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Science at the Natural History Museum retweeted
The bad news: #BigButterflyCount is over for another year 😞
The good news: You can still submit the results of any counts done between 18 July - 10 August until the end of this month! 🙌
Submit any pending counts at 👉 bigbutterflycount.org
📷: Brian Valentine
ALT A Holly Blue butterfly looking inquisitively at the camera from its leafy perch
Science at the Natural History Museum retweeted
Our South Kensington Museum, including our gardens, will be closed on 3 October 2025 as we are hosting a charity gala. 🦖
We’re sorry for any inconvenience this may cause and look forward to welcoming you another time.
ALT A large blue whale skeleton suspended from the ceiling. Under the whale, there’s text saying, ‘The Natural History Museum will be closed on 3 October 2025’. Behind the skeleton, there are three large arched windows and highly decorated architectural details.
Science at the Natural History Museum retweeted
If you’ve been to Hintze Hall before, you might have seen this striking and colourful seaweed display. This arrangement isn’t only beautiful, it also tells us a lot about the importance of seaweed.
Let’s take a look at the crucial role seaweed plays in our ecosystems and why it needs to be protected. ⬇️
ALT A photograph of the seaweed and kelp installation in Hintze Hall. Different species of seaweed are pressed on panes of glass.
Science at the Natural History Museum retweeted
🌟New sampling story in the latest issue of 'The Marine Biologist' magazine. Sharing exciting visuals, @NHM_Science staff Inez Januszczak wrote all about the trials and joys of coordinating a sampling trip to the Channel Islands.
Read on ⤵️
mymba.mba.ac.uk/resource/sna…
@EBPgenome
Science at the Natural History Museum retweeted
The Big Butterfly Count 2025 is here and butterflies need our help 🦋🚨
This isn't just a survey, it's a rescue mission, and we need everyone to get involved.
No lab coats. No science degrees. Just 15 minutes of your time. ⏱️
Get out for the count 👉 bigbutterflycount.org
ALT A Common Blue butterfly is perched on heather against a pink background. Text overlay reads "Get out for the count" with Butterfly Conservation's Big Butterfly Count logo above it. In the bottom right corner, the text reads 'exclusive media partner' with BBC Countryfile Magazine logo. Photo credit Matt Berry
Science at the Natural History Museum retweeted
@NHM_Science news piece on our new paper! Headline based on the potential impact of these large silesaurs on our understanding of size evolution in early dinosaurs 🦕
nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/2025…
Science at the Natural History Museum retweeted
🧬 While the technique of DNA sequencing from amber is still the work of science fiction, scientists at the museum have been pioneering techniques using Ancient DNA technologies with specimens that have been in our collections for centuries.
Find out more nhm.ac.uk/our-science/resear…
Science at the Natural History Museum retweeted
As Jurassic World returns with #JurassicWorldRebirth, we are sharing this amber containing Flies, Wasps, Ants, Moths, Beetles and Dragonflies. We digitised 5,700 amber specimens as part of NHM Unlocked which will see the construction of a new centre at Thames Valley Science Park.
Science at the Natural History Museum retweeted
Sometimes our insect specimen labels are a challenge to decipher. 🧐 This one gave us some trouble, partly because the label’s end was snipped off in the past. It was originally transcribed as "Capt. Boss. Hoot." Which sounds like some sort of gangster owl...🦉#InsectWeek
Science at the Natural History Museum retweeted
Are you struggling with aphids in your garden?
Spare a thought for our digitisers who have painstakingly digitised 20,000 aphids, our largest digitisation project to date. data.nhm.ac.uk/search/aphid-…
#digitisation #aphids #opendata #NaturalHistoryMuseumLondon
Science at the Natural History Museum retweeted
Hot off the press! Our new guide to #PavementPlants for @nhm_science #UrbanNatureProject is finally here! The guide will be available as a free download on the Museum’s website very soon. 🌱🌱 #UrbanWildlife #UrbanPlants #StreetPlants #UrbanBotany #IDGuide #FreeIDGuide
Science at the Natural History Museum retweeted
Congratulations to five!!! schistosomiasis PhDs supervised by Dr Bonnie Webster @schistoresearch
Congratulations to our outgoing PhD students who had their Graduation Celebration at the Museum last week, we wish you all the best and hope to cross paths during your future careers. #TogethernessMW #MuseumWeek
Science at the Natural History Museum retweeted
This #WorldBeeDay explore how researchers used digitised images of uk bumblebees to show that they experience more stress in warmer, wetter springs and summers. nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/2022…
Science at the Natural History Museum retweeted
We have digitised 6 million specimens, including over 2.5 million insects, 1.2 million plants and 600,000 fossils. This #InternationalMuseumsDay we want to celebrate this and encourage more people to explore our collection online at data.nhm.ac.uk
Science at the Natural History Museum retweeted
How many pink animals can you think of, off the top of your head? 💭
We’ve rounded up five perfectly pink works of nature that you probably haven’t seen before - even the UK native!
Scroll through for some pink power, straight from the natural world… 🌺
ALT A macro photo of the face of a pink fuzzy moth, taken head on, showing large round eyes, antennae, a nose and six legs resting over a bright pink fluffy body front.
Science at the Natural History Museum retweeted
We just had to share these new beautiful photos of Fern taken at dusk! 🌅 🦕
For nearly a year, our Diplodocus has welcomed visitors in our Museum gardens! Did you know that it’s the first fully self-supporting life-size bronze Diplodocus cast?
Come say hi to Fern during your next visit!
ALT A close-up of the diplodocus cast on display in the Natural History Museum’s gardens.
ALT The diplodocus cast on display in the Natural History Museum’s gardens. This photo was taken at dusk, as the sun rises in the background. There’s a lot of vegetation beside the cast and the Museum’s building is visible in the background.
Science at the Natural History Museum retweeted
It’s a slow catwalk on the ocean floor, but there’s a new deep sea fashion designer in the reef!
This carrier shell has a talent for decorating themselves with corals, shells and even small sea creatures. Find out how and why in this week’s #SurprisingScience 🐚💎
Science at the Natural History Museum retweeted
Sloane is often thought of as the inventor of drinking chocolate with milk. But historians note that Jamaicans were actually making the hot beverage as far back as 1494 - find out more youtube.com/watch?v=8Ci9uKWd…
Science at the Natural History Museum retweeted
Hans Sloane #BornOnThisDay in 1660, was a doctor and collector. His vast collection eventually formed the basis of our collection. Hans Sloane's Collection of Vegetable Substances have been digitised and made available on the Data Portal data.nhm.ac.uk/dataset/sloan…
Science at the Natural History Museum retweeted
News from @savebutterflies shows that last summer was second worst for common UK butterflies since 1976, with the summer of 2023 being the worst on record for the small tortoiseshell (Aglais urticae) theguardian.com/environment/…
