World Photography Day – August 19th
August 19th is World Photography Day, so what better time to feature some beautifully manipulated images of some of our favousite specimens? Jim Naughten is a photographer who specialises in the combination of photography and digital painting. These images are from his “Eremozoic” project, which was exhibited at the Michael Hoppen Gallery in 2021. The […]
Dinosaur talk postponed
Next Talk – 18th May 2022 – New Dinosaurs from the Isle of Wight
Online talk – 13th April 2022 – Forest Management and Red Squirrel Conservation
Next talk – 2nd March 2022 – the scary side of zoology…
How do you move a museum?
With 3000+ specimens including taxidermy, skeletons, fossils, and models, not to mention the extensive fluid collection with preserving agents which can be flammable or toxic, it is a mammoth task to relocate an entire museum 600m across campus! The museum in question is the Cole Museum of Zoology, founded by Professor Francis Cole in 1907 […]
Next talk – 3rd Feb – Californian Sea Lions!
Next talk – 19th January 2022 – Dino discovery!
Missed the unveiling and presentation of the Archaeopteryx model?
Online talk – Dec 2nd – The walrus’s whiskers and the mouse’s moustache: why do animals have whiskers?
This event is hosted online by the Berkshire Mammal Group in association with the Cole Museum of Zoology. Nearly all mammals have whiskers – sensory tactile hairs, also known as vibrissae. In fact, whiskers are only truly absent in a handful of species, including humans. However, much of what we know about whiskers comes from […]