Bring back kata kata to life ! (Wednesday 29 May 2019)
Bordeaux Museum in partnership with Bordeaux Métropole and the crowdfunding platform KissKissBankBank is inviting donations to help having a rhinoceros mounted.
This kata kata specimen was a resident in the Bioparc of Doué-La-Fontaine in le Maine-et-Loire. It was one of the few representant of a critically endangered species: The black rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis).
The total cost is estimated at 22 000 € with a minimum target of 10 000 € coming from the crowdfunding.
You can participate to the funding and for further informations, visit: https://www.museum-bordeaux.fr/accueil/offrez-une-seconde-vie-a-kata-kata
Les Herbonautes : Selected proposals following the call for projects 2019 (Monday 11 March 2019)
Following the call for projects for 2019, these are the proposals which have been accepted:
Metrosideros (Mission in english)
Rubus de Maine-et-Loire
Vanuatu (Mission in french)
Vanuatu (Mission in english)
Les primulacées d’altitude Primevères , Androsaces et Soldanelles
Herbiers Le Mans
Du bord des chemins aux plus hauts sommets de l'Atlas, Liguliflores d’Afrique du Nord
« Fan de métal » sur les espèces végétales hyperaccumulatrices de métaux en Nouvelle-Calédonie
160 ans d’acclimatation sur la Côte d’Azur
Herbier du Maroc de Joël Mathez
Les fleurs d’automne en Afrique du Nord
La flore endémique de l’outremer français
Flore de Wallis et Futuna
10 million specimens. The adventure continues.... (Wednesday 27 February 2019)
The 10 millionth specimen of recolnat has just been put online. It is the holotype of a nautilus fossil from the collections of Université de Bourgogne:
crédit : Université de Bourgogne@RECOLNAT(ANR-11-INBS-0004)
https://explore.recolnat.org/occurrence/16412AB0722441C8ABBE485BDA75D082
Angers museum : Help Vorax to resurface ! (Wednesday 20 February 2019)
In 2013 fossils have been discovered in Anjou, buried in the tufa. Excavations lasted until 2016 and revealed a skeleton of a marin reptile part of the plesisosaurs family. The exceptionality of this discovery encourage the Museum of natural sciences of Angers to promote the fossile at its fair value in the paleontology room: recomposition, presentation of the rest of the bones...
A funding campain is being held through the months of February an March to help the museum realize a 1:1-scale model of the plesiosaur.
You can help by donating at: https://www.commeon.com/fr/projet/aidezvorax !
Annotate : a new image annotation tool for the natural sciences (Thursday 31 January 2019)
Annotate is an ergonomic image annotation tool for the natural sciences. It allows you to perform physical and identification measurements in digitized herbarium plates, zoology, paleontology and other images.
Download : Annotate v1.1.11