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Articles: Species new to science: Shovelhead Worms from around the world
8 January 2013[image: Shovelhead worm]
Marine bristle-worms (Polychaetes) are related to earthworms and leeches - well known examples are lugworms and ragworms used by sea fisherman as bait. The Magelonidae is a small family of polychaetes that have a unique flattened head, used for digging, giving them the common name, the shovelhead worms.
Articles: Unseasonal wild flowers in Cardiff: Winter 2012
20 December 2012[image: Wild flower]
New Years Day 2012 witnessed unusual widespread flowering of plants around the city of Cardiff. Will New Years Day 2013 bring the same, or were early winter frosts severe enough to prevent the unseasonal flowering of our wild flowers?Articles: Species new to science: Dance-Flies from Chile
26 November 2012[image: ]
All species are constantly evolving, and their current distributions and diversity, even in the local context of Wales, have been determined by factors such as climate change, continental drift and ecology. Scientists must therefore study organisms in a global context in order to properly appreciate how they fit into the Tree of Life.
Galleries: Antarctic Penguins
29 May 2012
Articles
Articles: Species new to science: Shovelhead Worms from around the world
8 January 2013[image: Shovelhead worm]
Marine bristle-worms (Polychaetes) are related to earthworms and leeches - well known examples are lugworms and ragworms used by sea fisherman as bait. The Magelonidae is a small family of polychaetes that have a unique flattened head, used for digging, giving them the common name, the shovelhead worms.
Articles: Unseasonal wild flowers in Cardiff: Winter 2012
20 December 2012[image: Wild flower]
New Years Day 2012 witnessed unusual widespread flowering of plants around the city of Cardiff. Will New Years Day 2013 bring the same, or were early winter frosts severe enough to prevent the unseasonal flowering of our wild flowers?Articles: Species new to science: Dance-Flies from Chile
26 November 2012[image: ]
All species are constantly evolving, and their current distributions and diversity, even in the local context of Wales, have been determined by factors such as climate change, continental drift and ecology. Scientists must therefore study organisms in a global context in order to properly appreciate how they fit into the Tree of Life.
Articles: Conserving Kew Garden's Wax Orchid Flower Collection
2 November 2011
Galleries
Galleries: Antarctic Penguins
29 May 2012[image: Gentoo Penguin, Waterboat Point, Antarctic Peninsula. Image: T Sharpe]
During the great age of Antarctic exploration, teams of scientists explored this last great frontier, bringing back new knowledge of the continent's rocks, weather and wildlife. To celebrate Captain Robert Falcon Scott’s 1910-13 British Antarctic Expedition, we focus on the Antarctic Penguin.
Galleries: Microscopic designs: Ernest Heath's collection of Foraminifera
15 March 2012[image: Heath microfossil collection]
These wonderful microscope slides are mostly made up of foraminifera (forams), tiny animals which live floating near the sea surface or on the sea bed. Would you have the patience to make up tiny patterns like these?
Galleries: British Seaweeds
4 October 2011[image: British Seaweeds]
Within its botanical collections, Amgueddfa Cymru houses a herbarium of dried, pressed algal specimens. This herbarium provides an essential resource for studying seaweeds.
Galleries: The rarest plants in Wales
1 April 2009Galleries: Up close with nature
21 August 2007
Interactives
Interactives: Giant Waterlily navigator
13 July 2007[image: Victoria regia]
Move around a close-up image of this highly detailed lithograph of Victoria regia, the Giant Waterlily, taken from a book that was specially commissioned to celebrate the first flowering of the plant at Kew in 1854.
Interactives: Portuguese Man-of-War navigator
10 July 2007[image: ]
Navigate around the Portuguese Man-of-War and discover more about this remarkable creature.