Wednesday 11. of May 2011 Insect Fossil Discovery at Museum of Somerset

Full News Story from BBC Somerset

More than 2,000 insect fossils dating to the Jurassic period have been found at the Museum of Somerset after being forgotten for more than 90 years.

Geologist Charles Moore excavated them in...

Monday 09. of May 2011 SHNH - Society for the History of Natural History (SHNHSocNatHist) is now on Twitter

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Thursday 05. of May 2011 The Curious Mr Catesby - DVD available

SHNH members may know that the owl (Otus asio, Eastern Screech Owl) on our SHNH website and cover of our SHNH Newsletter is  Mark Catesby's (1682-1749) etching of the "Little Owl" from Volume I of Mark Catesby's...