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Dr David Gelsthorpe

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Curator of Earth Science Collections @McrMuseum. Chair of @YourTrustRdale & Chair of UK Accreditation scheme for Museums, all views my own.

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Exciting to be shortlisted for @artfund #MuseumoftheYear 2024 @McrMuseum 😀

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I’ve come to Creswell Crags, where the story of British art started, some 12,000 years ago…


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Yes, I've shared this image before - and I'll share it again! Easily the most majestic #trilobite I've ever held in my own hands, this remarkable 34 cm long Paradoxides davidis comes from Middle #Cambrian rocks at Manuels River, #Newfoundland, #Canada. #TrilobiteTuesday

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#ExploreYourArchive #EYAMystery Have you heard the tale of "The Sheldon Duck"?🦆 In 1601 a duck flew into an Ash tree and never left! Sometime later the "duck tree" was chopped down due to rot at the bottom and this fascinating imprint the size of a real duck was exposed.🌳🪓

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You can see where impressively spiny Ceratocephala got its name, which comes from the Greek for ‘horn head’ #TrilobiteTuesday

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We captured a lot of really neat lynx footage this past fall and winter! They are just such ethereal looking creatures, and its always a highlight when we get footage of them, especially in the daylight. We were going to make a video sharing our best lynx footage from the fall…


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Big Stinky's Big Adventure: Black and Chrome Edition (I promise there's more planned for this sequence than t. rex beach wandering, but I have to you know... finish the other dinosaurs first).


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First sightings of baby beavers born in North Cumbria - @CumbriaWildlife c-js.uk/3ZNYNBn

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It's conference day! 🥳 We look forward to seeing you at 10:30am. There's still time to grab a ticket🎟️ We're looking forward to hearing from @katie_brown1984 about how she's been engaging with museums to embed the Spectrum Use of collections procedure: buff.ly/4efN6IB

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Damaged but still striking head of Struveria from near Llanrwst, North Wales for #TrilobiteTuesday

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Winnats Pass 1909

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SAVE THE DATE - Wild Researchers Night @McrMuseum 25/09 - 6pm till 8.30pm ✨️ We will be chatting all things Community Research Partnerships, Co-Creation, and Air Pollution with @sheencr, Prof. Jennifer O'Brien and Dr. Joanna Barrow ♥️ #Manchester #research #community

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Acastoides had compound eyes with very large individual lenses separated from each other #TrilobiteTuesday

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New octopus from the Eocene Monte Bolca lagerstatte, appropriately named Bolcaoctopus!

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This #TrilobiteTuesday: here's a pair of fabulous Triarthrus eatoni specimens from Ordovician rocks in upstate New York. Limbs and even antennae are sometimes preserved in the incredible #trilobite fossils found in the area. Image: Daniel Kim /@AMNH

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More great rewilding news 🙌 Half a million European flat oysters are being introduced back into the Humber estuary as part of Wilder Humber's five-year programme to help restore Britain's coastal waters from overfishing and pollution.  Read more: theguardian.com/environment/ar…


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The Hove Amber Cup was made from a single piece of Baltic #amber some 3,500 years ago. It was found in a #BronzeAge burial mound in Hove, Sussex. 📷 taken by me

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Reassuring to see unity on the sector's opposition to unethical disposal of cultural assets based on loss of public benefit and trust. Huge thanks for the leadership of @ace_national @nmdcnews and others

News | Unethical disposal could endanger public trust, say museum bodies – @ace_national releases joint statement on financially motivated sales from collections Read: ow.ly/NmUx50T8rgO

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Two enrolled ‘Dudley bugs’ from our historic collections, one from Cardiff, the other unrecorded but likely from Dudley itself #TrilobiteTuesday

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Lovely rock from Solva for #TrilobiteTuesday crammed full of mostly Eodiscus with the occasional Solenopleura. Separate heads and tails suggest this was an accumulation of moulted exoskeletons

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Tiny, blind Shumardia (Conophrys) probably lived in the deep sea where there was little or no light #TrilobiteTuesday

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