February 12-23, 2014Join us in celebrating the theories, the people who introduced the world to these concepts, and the evidence of evolution through the fossil record. Museum tours, activities, and crafts will have an evolutionary focus, including creating your own fossils, DNA extraction demos, and touring our neighbour, the Pacific Museum of Earth.
The Beaty Biodiversity Museum hosted the 6th annual “Bake a Cake for Darwin” contest on February 12. This year, we encouraged participants to bake a cake for Wallace as well. There were 9 wonderful entries, and over 60 hungry spectators. Click through for the winners and links to photos.
Wayne Maddison (professor of Zoology/Botany and former BBM director) is conducting field work in Jalisco, Mexico (west central part of the country) collecting and observing all sorts of wild and wonderful insects and spiders. Click through for the link to his daily (almost) blog online!
February 2, 2014, 1:00pmChris StinsonJoin Chris Stinson, Curatorial Assistant of Mammals at the Beaty Biodiversity Museum, as he uncovers his favourite group of mammals; weasels and their fellow group of mustelids. Included with museum admission or membership
The Cowan Tetrapod Collection Staff are thrilled to announce the repatriation of the type specimen of Spinus psaltria witti, a subspecies of Lesser Goldfinch collected on Maria Magdelena, Tres Marias Islands, Mexico. Dr. Peter Larkin, a former Dean of Graduate Studies at UBC, collected this specimen on March 1st 1961. Dr. Peter Grant, who is best known for his work on Galapagos Finches, described this subspecies when he was a PhD Candidate at the University of British Columbia.
Scientists say a recently located fossil site on the Alberta-B.C. border is already yielding major new discoveries about early animal evolution. The Marble Canyon fossil beds were located in 2012 by a team of Canadian, U.S. and Swedish researchers in Kootenay National Park, about 40 kilometres from the 505-million-year-old Burgess Shale in Yoho National Park — which is considered one of the most important fossil fields in the world.
Outer Shores Expeditions I was recently asked: “Why, after completing a PhD and Postdoctoral Fellowship in marine ecosystem science in the Department of Zoology, Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability (IRES), and the Biodiversity Rese
Connecting Human Progression and Reduction of Nature Through Art Human progression comes at the cost to nature. Through drawing and collage, UBC Botanical Garden’s Artist in Residence, Dana Cromie explores his reaction to this happening in Remnants: A
Thursday, January 23, 2014 | 10:30 a.m.James W. Hagadorn, Denver Museum of Nature & Science Long before fish-like animals began to crawl from the sea onto land, the ancestors of scorpions and snails began colonizing the terrestrial realm. Learn about the behaviours and identities of the first animals.
Virginia Noble, winner of Best of Way Cool 2013, tells us her thoughts upon hearing the wonderful news.
