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Just a few centuries ago choughs were recorded all along the south coast of England... Do you think we could get there again?! 😻🐦‍⬛🧡 (Map based on my research, from my #AtlasOfEarlyModernWildlife) x.com/cornishchoughs…

Ardea bennuides! The ancient Egyptians left us life size portrayals of this species of extinct heron in their art- apparently a sacred bird they called Bennu (popularly known as the Egyptian phoenix). Actual subfossil remains of it have been found in the Arabian penninsula!

These are some of the Japanese plants accumulated by Engelbert Kaempfer in 1691-2, which were gathered by translator Genemon Imamura on their journeys to the court at Edo, 15/18

🦅 Ten birds of prey protect the Roman ruins of Pompeii from pesky pigeons that pose a risk to the archaeological excavations.

What a nice piece of work on historical fish populations, and how we loose every piece of memory of them, by Alec Moore We gathered centuries-old written records to show the seas around Wales once teemed with life theconversation.com/we-gathered-ce… The Conversation

2/2 Tiger and lynx. Cross between zoology and dictionary, 1586, after Jacques le Moyne de Morgues.

Here's where you could get good 'sardines-on-toast' 250-500 years ago...🐟 Pilchards were most common in Cornwall (perhaps the Duchy's biggest industry). And in Munster, there was a connection between the pilchard fishery and international piracy! #AtlasofEarlyModernWildlife

Very excited to announce that I feature in this week's episode of THAT SHAKESPEARE LIFE podcast! Click the link to hear me bang on about what beavers meant* to people in Shakespearean England. #animalhistory #beavers #shakespeare (*And perhaps also what they didn't mean! 💅😉)

Our monograph is already available for pre-order with discount... liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10.38…

The halibut, a giant flatfish (upto 15ft!) caught in the northern seas in 🇬🇧+🇮🇪. It was possibly depleted in the North Sea by the beginning of the 20th century and is now endangered, but 250-500 years ago it apparently swam in the Thames estuary! 🙀💙 #AtlasofEarlyModernWildlife

After studying the Great Auk for 2 years for my senior thesis at Middlebury College, I am now going to Cambridge University’s Library to read the famous Garefowl Books by John Wolley (detailing interviews w/locals in Iceland in 1800s about the last Great Auk hunts) in person!!!

Prof. Mazin Qumsiyeh of Bethlehem University is giving a seminar on “Creating a natural history museum and conserving biodiversity in Palestine”, here at Cardiff University, School of Biosciences, on Friday November 15th. Message me for details if you’d like to attend.

I love asking people to guess how big passenger pigeon flocks could get. 100,000 birds? A million? Try two billion. In 1860 one writer described a flock of birds a mile wide that took *14 hours* to pass overhead, packed so dense that it blocked the sun.

🦮So pleased that Collared is out in the world! 🐕 Big thanks to everyone at Profile Books (esp Jon Petre for wrangling words and images) and PEW Literary (esp Doug Young) for making this happen Big thanks too Liv Uni History Remaking One Health: Public Health and Street Dogs and Wellcome #dogs #history

When people think of a sabertooth tiger they usually think of Smilodon. But the name was originally applied to Homotherium remains. It is kind of poetic that it would be Homotherium that would make history again by being the first Sabercat to reveal itself in the flesh to us! 🔥