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Local rockpool & shore surveys are a great way to get involved with your local community, help record non-native species or just have fun. Check out our range of spotters sheets for using on the shore here: museum.wales/collections/on… including two for non-native species Invasive Species Week

Crayfish, mitten crabs and marine bristle worms this morning on the invasive species table Amgueddfa Caerdydd. Come along and find out more about #invasiveSpeciesWeek

Our last invasive session of the week Amgueddfa Caerdydd is Invasive slugs and snails and the importance of recording them #InvasiveSpeciesWeek

Congratulations to Zhiru Guoli on their first scientific paper! Zhiru joined N Smith last summer Amgueddfa Caerdydd to explore the use of historical fungal records in bettering our understanding of fungus-fungus relationships tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Last week our scientists were out in force in the Main Hall Amgueddfa Caerdydd for #InvasiveSpeciesWeek. Our curators highlighted the problems of invasive species to visitors including seaweeds, marine invertebrates, slugs and snails and flowering plants

Cadwch lygad am ein Wyddor Trilobitau o wythnos nesaf ymlaen – dilynwch ni bob wythnos i gyfarfod creadur newydd #Trilobitau #yrwyddor From next week look out for our #TrilobiteTuesday #alphabet - follow us each week from A-Z 👀 Amgueddfa Cymru | Museum Wales

Happy Birthday, born #OTD 1799, Mary Anning. We're currently celebrating this famous fossil hunter right here at the Market Hall Museum, hosting 'Mini-Mary', the Mary Anning maquette. britannica.com/biography/Mary…

Mae graptolit hwn, o Fynydd Parys ar Ynys Môn, wedi cael ei gadw mewn ‘Aur Ffyliaid’ (pyrit haearn). Mae’n edrych fel llafn llif metel #FossilFriday 🪚

Preserved in ‘Fool’s Gold’ (iron pyrite), this graptolite from Parys Mountain on Anglesey looks like a metal saw blade #FossilFriday 🪚

A huge THANK YOU to everyone involved in #INNSweek 2025! You can find highlights on our website: nonnativespecies.org/invasivespecie…

And our taxonomists Amgueddfa Cymru | Museum Wales are a part of this important work. Great to see this work being recognised #taxonomistAppreciationDay

A am Acaste. Mae’r corff wedi cyrlio rhywfaint, a’r llygaid cyfansawdd yn anferth gyda lensiau mawr #Trilobitau #yrwyddor #TrilobiteTuesday A is for Acaste, partly curled up & showing off its stunning compound eyes with big lenses #TrilobiteTuesday #alphabet 👀 Amgueddfa Cymru | Museum Wales

Our curators are helping out with Lego workshops this week Amgueddfa Caerdydd. They will be showing a wealth of specimens from our marine invertebrate collections Amgueddfa Cymru | Museum Wales. We can’t wait to talk about all the amazing things in the sea

Taxonomy in Trouble - "It is clear that millions of species, facing an imminent threat of extinction, will leave no fossil record and will disappear along with all they could have taught us about their roles in the biosphere, evolutionary history, and adaptations for survival"

Exciting news from Amgueddfa Caerdydd! Bryn our Sumatran Tiger is now on display in our Diversity gallery. Here’s Vertebrate Curator jennifer gallichan and NatHistConservation getting Bryn ready. Find out more about Bryn: museum.wales/blog/1760/The-…

It might look big but this is very small for a woolly mammoth tooth! Found on Gower, this was a ‘milk tooth’ shed by the mammoth when it was still a baby #FossilFriday 🦣

Mae'n edrych yn fawr ond mae hwn yn fach iawn ar gyfer dant mamoth gwlanog! Mae e wedi cael ei ffeindio ar Benrhyn Gŵyr, a ‘dannedd llaeth’ oedd e, a wedi cael ei fwrw gan y mamoth pan oedd yn dal yn fabi #FossilFriday 🦣

May might be over but the buzz hasn’t stopped…bring on #LetItBloomJune!🌸 Are you ready? 🌼For the #NoMowMovement we’re urging anyone who can, to keep things growing. Wondering what it will look like and how to help wildlife in your garden 👉 loom.ly/Iv_xdUk #NoMowMay

B am Basilicus tyrannus. Trilobit trawiadol gydag enw pwerus sy’n golygu teyrn brenhinol #Trilobit #yrwyddor B is for Basilicus tyrannus, an impressive trilobite with a powerful name that means royal or kingly tyrant #TrilobiteTuesday #alphabet