This week I went to a talk at Zoology on Palaeognaths. (I spent much of the week guessing what Palaeognaths were... I knew I'd seen the term in the museum... was it the research on fins to limbs? Or early jaws... does that translate as early jaws? Is this the emergence of the first sharks? No.) Palaeognaths, also called the Ratites, are the big lumpy flightless birds that I think of as the most dinosaur-y: Ostriches, Emus, Rheas, Cassowaries... and the extinct Moas and Elepha

Much belated post after cold and snot induced vertigo. A second time with bird skeletons in the Zoology Museum, so many more bird skeletons in the portfolio - including a flightless cormorant with a bandaged head, and an ovenbird which is decidedly legless (or bodiless) - is that oven ready? Also the fun challenge of a Cassowary and a Rhea brought in for photos - needing a huge background sheet, and standing far far away to get the bird in the photo! But, most excitingly, I h