18th Grant Lecturer: Anjali Goswami
Dr. Anjali Goswami out on field work Dean Veall here. On Tuesday this week Team Grant celebrated what would have been Robert Edmond Grant‘s 221st birthday in the a suitably zoological manner raising a...
View ArticleSpecimen of the Week 198: Ammonite-ee-hee*
In both sad and happy news, I’m off to pastures new at the end of August, leaving the Grant Museum after what will be ten years and off to the Oxford University Museum of Natural History. Although...
View ArticleUnderwhelming Fossil Fish of the Month: January 2016
January 2016 was a big month for palaeontology in the media. This month you may have caught a programme on fossil Mesozoic vertebrate finds featuring one of the most beloved natural historians, some...
View ArticleUnderwhelming fossil fish of the Month December 2016
2016 was the most overwhelmingly underwhelming year of the last twelve months. But it wasn’t the only thing that disappointed in month by month instalments. Yes, of course I’m talking about the Grant...
View ArticleUnderwhelming Fossil Fish of the Month March 2017
It’s the end of March which means only one thing. Well it means many things but in the specific context of this monthly series that explores the underwhelmingest of fossil fish, which to be honest is...
View ArticleUnderwhelming Fossil Fish of the Month April 2017
Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today to witness the monthly union of a fossil fish and the acknowledgement of how underwhelming this fossil fish is, in holy blogimony, which is an honourable...
View ArticleUnderwhelming Fossil Fish of the Month May 2017
GOOD NEWS ALERT. Thanks to the transfer of some fossil material from UCL Geology Collections to the Grant Museum of Zoology, the Museum is now definitively the unique home of underwhelming fossil fish...
View ArticleUnderwhelming Fossil Fish of the Month September 2017
Welcome to this month’s EXCLUSIVE September 2017 underwhelming fossil fish of the month, your one stop shop for monthly underwhelming fish fossils delivered direct to your eyeballs in exchange for only...
View ArticleUnderwhelming Fossil Fish of the Month December 2017
2017 is nearly done but there’s just enough time to make it just that little bit more underwhelming than it already was otherwise. If you’ve arrived here by some strange quirk or questionable Googling...
View ArticleUnderwhelming Fossil Fish of the Month January 2018
Welcome to January’s underwhelming fossil fish of the month. Normally in this introductory bit, before the jump, I try to do a bit about some topical event and then tentatively link it to this month’s...
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