Compiled by Dr Emma Nicholls, Deputy Keeper of Natural History at the Horniman Museum and Gardens.
What Should I Read?
Prolific author Darren Naish (of TetZoo) has pulled together a collection of exciting tetrapod-based scientific discoveries of 2018 in his latest article The Most Amazing TetZoo Themed Discoveries of 2018.
The government of New Zealand is under pressure to act on the trade of moa bones. This article is good food for thought re private sales of fossils; Moa for sale: trade in extinct birds’ bones threatens New Zealand’s history.
Of interest to many more of us than just curators, the top three most popular 2018 blogs posted on the Geological Curators’ Group website are:
1) Pyrite Oxidation: Where Are We Now? an excellent and informative article on the menace of pyrite decay
2) Up Inside Historic Dinosaurs about the Crystal Palace Dinosaurs, and
3) Contradictions, Conundrums and Lies which looks at the issues we face in museums!
