Sedgwick Museum, Cambridge: virtual tour, Asteriornis exhibition

[ceratopsian]

Excellent virtual tour of an (obviously currently closed) temporary exhibition called "Dawn of the Wonderchicken".  It gives a great deal of information and good images about the "oldest modern bird", Asteriornis maastrichtensis.  Some stunning photos of modern birds too.

https://wserv4.esc.cam.ac.uk/online-exhibitions/index.php/Wonderchicken/dawn-of-the-wonderchicken-2/?fbclid=IwAR333Si_5dmDI1VFcsXdJODM3GuWUSU3CmQKw3G4YI9RICEpBH_Ee-t3x5c

[Halichoeres]

Thanks for posting! I'm glad that some museums are making things like this available.

[ceratopsian]

Thanks for posting! I'm glad that some museums are making things like this available.

I thought they did the "tour" really well. Perhaps it was easier to construct because it was clearly a very compact and focussed exhibition.

[Crackington]

Yes, thanks for posting this Ceratopsian. I visited the Sedgwick Museum a few years back with my girls and did a short thread for the Forum. It's a lovely place and very welcoming with good things for kids to do. It's smaller and less impressive than its rival natural history museum at Oxford (also well worth a visit) but is packed full of fossils nonetheless.

I don't think I've ever seen so many trilobites in one place!