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The insect world is tiny but astonishing, one that includes much complexity and surprising beauty. And starting next weekend, visitors to the Fernbank Museum can get a closer look at these creatures.
The museum will debut its latest exhibit â Microsculpture: The insect portraits of Levon Biss â Jan. 30. According to Fernbank officials, the exhibit âmagnifies these tiny creatures into large-format, high-resolution portraits in the context of Fernbank Museumâs immersive woodlands to highlight the beauty of some Earthâs most misunderstood critters.â
The photos will be placed in the Fernbankâs Nature Gallery in WildWoods. Guests can enjoy the photos in the secluded museum-curated forest environment that is filled with its own variety of insect species .
New research has revealed details of early mammal life in the Isle of Skye which dates back to the Middle Jurassic period. X-ray scanning of two complete skulls of small mouse-like mammals, which are estimated to be around 166 million years old, has revealed a species utterly new to science: Borealestes cuillinesis. They are part of the collections of National Museums Scotland, and are described in a new paper published in The Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. Lead author of the study, Dr Elsa Panciroli, an associate researcher at National Museums Scotland and research fellow at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History, said: “These two skulls may be tiny in size, but their significance is huge.