***Correction to this information - see bottom of blog*** Of all the nightmare fodder I shared on the last post, the question that came through the comments was about how food has changed skull shapes. Well, what can I say but that I am happy to help? Using my handy copy of Simon Mays' The Archaeology of Human Bones (pp,96-100) and the Colour Atlas of Human Anatomy (pp.14, 70) and a bit of a search on the web (as unfortunately the main references from Mays are behind paywall

Today I saw a lovely, informative image from the Biologist's Apprentice on Facebook. Which made me realise that I would not normally have covered the amazing cephalopods, as I don't believe I have ever seen a display of their skeletons in a museum. (In fact, the image I have shown is, in reality, a picture of parrot food.) Okay, so really not much going on in the bony world for invertebrates. But cephalopods are brilliant! They rightly deserve some good fan sites, such as thi

After many hours scouring the databases and determining what was special about this museum's stores, I spent a wonderful morning surrounded by the stores of the Oxford University Museum of Natural History's wet specimens collection. I specifically went in to photograph brains, of which they have a very nice selection, and some, like this bear, have been labeled to help amateurs like me find all the bits. (All images can be displayed due to the Courtesy of the Oxford Universit