At our next #LapworthLecture on Mon 9 March, Dr Alfio Alessandro Chiarenza will speak about his research on #dinosaur ecosystem responses to #climatechange during the Mesozoic. Free & open to all. More info: www.birmingham.ac.uk... Illustration: Davide Bonadonna Alessandro Chiarenza

Megalodon (O. megalodon) became extinct around 3.6 million years ago, and some of the fossil evidence we have include this tooth! O. megalodon is estimated to be ~20 metres in length, that's ~four times the length of the largest great white shark. Imagine a ferocious predator of that size!

Did you know sharks and their relatives predate trees? Join Dr Hannah Byrne on 18 Feb at her Lapworth Lecture on sharks' evolutionary success due to a lightweight cartilage skeleton, both on campus and Zoom. More info: www.birmingham.ac.uk... 📸: Upper and lower jaw with teeth of an Angel shark.

Join us for a fun night of #trivia surrounded by fossils! Compete across rounds including general knowledge, music, film, TV, science, geography, sports and more. 🗓️ Wed 4 Feb, 7pm 🍪 Snacks and soft drinks included with your ticket Book here: quiznight-feb2026.eventbrite.co.uk?aff=fb #QuizNight

We recently asked if you could identify a septarian nodule! Found in carbonate-rich rocks, they are named for their characteristic cracks. These are 'septa' after the Latin for 'partition', and in most cases are infilled with #calcite! Image by Greg Milner. #WhatsItWednesday #museum #geology

What's on at the Museum next month 🦖 For tickets and information, head over to our website: www.birmingham.ac.uk/cultural-att... #LapworthRocks #Museum #Geology #Dinosaur #Events #EventsBirmingham #Birmingham #BirminghamEvents #MuseumEvents #WhatsOn #ThingsToDo #FebruaryActivities #February

What could this intriguing structure be? Comment your answer and find out if you're right next week! Image by Greg Milner. #LapworthRocks #WhatsItWednesday #museum #geology #geologyrocks #palaeontology

Diplomystus & Knightia can be found in the #Eocene Green River Formation, USA. These fish may look familiar as they are distantly related to modern-day herrings and sardines. Knightia are even the most commonly excavated #fossil #fish in the world! 📸: Greg Milner #FossilFriday #museum #geology

Our next Lapworth Lecture will be on Wed 18 Feb with Dr Hannah Byrne! Hannah will speak about innovations in shark skeletons, aiding their remarkable evolutionary success. Free to attend, open to all. 📌 WG5, Aston Webb A-Block, Uni of Bham and/or Zoom 💻 For more info: www.birmingham.ac.uk...

A soft sulfate mineral often used in fertiliser and plaster, gypsum can occur in green due to the presence of copper! Image by Greg Milner. #LapworthRocks #FossilFriday #museum #geology #geologyrocks #palaeontology #paleontology #palaeo #paleo #fossils #minerals

📣 The Museum is open today (Saturday 10th January). We are open today as normal from 12pm to 5pm. Please take care when travelling to the Museum as it is icy out there.

Delve into the world of Ancient Egypt at our #LapworthLecture on Monday with Prof. Paul T. Nicholson 🔍 Free to attend, open to all. 📅 Mon 12 Jan, 17:30 📌 WG12, Aston Webb A-Block, Uni of Bham and/or Zoom For more info and Zoom registration: www.birmingham.ac.uk...

Throwback to Matt Hobs' comedy show at the Museum in our first ever venture into hosting live comedy nights. Matt is back to perform his show 100% Badgers on Thurs 26 Feb. Book your early bird tickets now! comedy-night-matt-hobs.eventbrite.co.uk?aff=sm 📷: Nicola Gotts

The Museum will be closed on Friday 9th January 2026 due to the severe snow and ice weather warning causing dangerous travelling conditions. We apologise for any inconvenience.

Imagine being a Doctor of Rockology! This certificate was presented to former University of Birmingham Head of Department Fred Shotton (1906–1990), clearly a #geologist with a good sense of humour! #LapworthRocks #ThrowbackThursday #geologyrocks #geology #palaeontology #history #museum #archive

The enormous tusks of hippos are formed from the top incisors and lower canines. Commonly used for defense and attack, these grow continuously through the animal's life and are sharpened as they are ground together! Image by Greg Milner. #LapworthRocks #ToothyTuesday #museum #zoology #biology

Our next #LapworthLecture is in 1 week 📣 Join Professor Paul T. Nicholson for a talk on Ancient Egyptian animal burial sites in North Saqqara. Open to everyone & free to attend 🌞 📅 Mon 12 Jan, 17:30 📌 WG12, Aston Webb A-Block, Uni of Bham and/or Zoom 💻 For more info: www.birmingham.ac.uk...

Our interactive exhibits in the Active Earth gallery are a great way to learn about structural geology, including different types of folds! #FoldFriday #LapworthRocks #Geology #Museum #EarthScience #Geoscience #FamilyFun #FamilyDaysOut

Happy New Year from the Lapworth Museum! 🦖 We wish everyone all the best for 2026. #HappyNewYear #2026 #LapworthRocks

Merry Christmas from the Lapworth Museum! 🎄🦖 We hope you have a wonderful day filled with peace and joy. 🕊️ #LapworthRocks #Christmas #Dinosaur #Museum #Geology

This #trilobite fossil provides a snapshot of life in the West Midlands 428 million years ago 🌊 The area was covered by a warm, tropical sea, and this species, Calymene blumenbachii, nicknamed the Dudley bug, comes from the Much Wenlock Limestone Formation of Dudley. #TrilobiteTuesday

The Museum is closed for part of the Christmas & New Year period. Tues 23 to Weds 24 Dec inclusive: Open Thurs 25 to Sat 27 Dec inclusive: Closed Sun 28 to Tues 30 Dec inclusive: Open Weds 31 Dec & Thurs 1 Jan 2026: Closed The Museum will be open as normal on Fri 2 Jan 2026. Merry Christmas!

We are so excited to announce Matt Hobs will be back at the Museum with his hit live comedy show 100% Badgers! Limited early bird tickets are on sale - grab yours now! 📅 Thurs 26 Feb 2026 📌 Live at the Lapworth Museum comedy-night-matt-ho... #LapworthRocks #LiveComedy #Comedy #Badgers

Our first #LapworthLecture of 2026 will be presented by Professor Paul T. Nicholson (Cardiff University) on Ancient Egyptian animal burial sites. 📅 Monday 12 January, 17:30 Open to everyone and free to attend in-person and on Zoom. For more info: www.birmingham.ac.uk...#LapworthLecture #LapworthRocks

Throwback to the Sekine Quartet playing at the Museum in October! Did you know we have an Instagram account dedicated solely to our exciting Museum events? Follow: www.instagram.com/la... Photo by Greg Milner #LapworthRocks #ThrowbackThursday #SekineQuartet #LapworthEvents #MuseumEvents #Quartet

You can watch the full episode of Live Lessons - Walking With Dinosaurs right now! Doesn’t the Museum look great! www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

This mineral specimen is galena with calcite and milky quartz and comes from our Robert Jasper More collection. More collected minerals from the old lead mines of South Shropshire. #MineralMonday #LapworthRocks #Minerals #Mineral #Crystals #Crystal #Geology #Museum #Mining

Look at this stunning diverse assemblage of fauna found in the Wenlock Limestone! What fossils can you spot? #FossilFriday #LapworthRocks #Fossils #Fossil #Geology #Palaeontology #Paleontology #Museum

This striking rock is none other than obsidian, which forms when lava cools rapidly with high silica content. This results in no crystals forming, giving obsidian its characteristic glassy appearance. #TectonicTuesday #LapworthRocks #Obsidian #Volcanic #Volcano #Tectonic #Igneous #Geology #Museum

#FossilFriday Ichniotherium willisi, tracks likely made by a stem-amniote diadectomorph, from the Permian of Shropshire, UK #LapworthRocks @lapworthmuseum.bsky.social

This thin section image shows augite in a dolerite specimen from Auvergne, France. Augite is a common mineral in mafic igneous rocks. #ThinSectionThursday #LapworthRocks #Museum #Geology #Minerals #Mineral #Crystals #Crystal #Rocks #Igneous

Catch a familiar face on your TV screens! We recently hosted #CBBC for a #WalkingWithDinosaurs special of #LiveLessons presented by Maddie Moate (Blue Peter) & Cam Whitnall (One Zoo Three). Don’t miss the new episode on Mon 15 Dec 2025 at 11:00 on CBBC. www.bbc.co.uk/teach/live-l... #LapworthRocks

No. I don’t just draw dinosaurs! These illustrations were commissioned for the Feeding Without Jaws Exhibition at @lapworthmuseum.bsky.social Check out their website - www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/feedi... - for more details of the exhibition, which runs until the end of February. (1/4)

Happy December, and happy Mollusc Monday! Did you know that in English folklore ammonites were called snakeshells due to their coiled shells? Image by Greg Milner. #MolluscMonday #LapworthRocks #Mollusc #Ammonite #Fossil #Fossils #Palaeontology #Paleontology #Museum #Geology

Check out Andy’s excellent reconstructions of jawless fish for our latest exhibition @lapworthmuseum.bsky.social!

Why not start off your December with an interesting FREE lecture by Prof. Antony Morris? Antony will explore seafloor spreading through grain-scale studies of oceanic crustal rocks. 🌊 Mon 1 Dec, 17:30 💻 Live at Uni of Bham and/or Zoom 🌞 Open to all More info: www.birmingham.ac.uk...

Did you know the #Museum has a collection of Quaternary beetles from Worcestershire? Did you also know that these were analysed by G. Russell Coope, internationally famous for his work reconstructing ancient climates using these very #fossils? Image by Greg Milner. #LapworthRocks #FossilFriday

Want to learn more about how the Earth's seafloor is spreading, creating part of our planet's crust? Join us for Prof. Antony Morris' Lapworth Lecture next Mon 1st Dec, live on campus and on Zoom for remote viewers. For more info: www.birmingham.ac.uk... #LapworthLecture #LapworthRocks

Our next Lapworth Lecture is on Mon 1st Dec with Prof. Antony Morris, exploring seafloor spreading through grain-scale observations of oceanic crustal rocks. Open to everyone, free to attend. 📌 WG5, Aston Webb A-Block, Uni of Bham and/or Zoom More info: www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/lapwo...

Once figured in Harry Blackmore Whittington's book Trilobites, this is a stunning example of the #Silurian fossil Dalmanites myops! Image by Greg Milner. #LapworthRocks #TrilobiteTuesday #museum #geology #geologyrocks #palaeontology #paleontology #palaeo #paleo #fossils #minerals #trilobites

Our Lapworth Lecture with Alice Whittle @acwhittle.bsky.social is tonight! We'll hear about how peatland restoration is affecting microbes & carbon dynamics in upland blanket bogs. Free entry, open to all 🌟 📌 WG12, Aston Webb A-Block, Uni of Bham and/or Zoom More info: www.birmingham.ac.uk...

Happy #FossilFriday! We are back from another great meeting of the @societyofvertpaleo.bsky.social , this year in Birmingham, #England. We presented a poster each on collections problem-solving and 3D prints for outreach + loved getting to see the @lapworthmuseum.bsky.social

Thinking about #dinosaurs? Didn't get a chance to celebrate their 200th birthday last year? Well, our Temporary #Exhibition curated by @palaeostephan.bsky.social has now gone virtual! Find 'Bringing dinosaurs back to life: 200 years of research' on our Virtual #Museum: ow.ly/Ryt550XvLCA

Join us on Mon 24 Nov for Alice Whittle's @acwhittle.bsky.social Lapworth Lecture. How does peatland restoration affect microbes & carbon dynamics in upland blanket bogs? Open to all, free entry. 📌 WG12, Aston Webb A-Block, Uni of Bham and/or Zoom For more info: www.birmingham.ac.uk...

Leonard Johnston Wills (1884–1979) was critical in the early study of Paleozoic #fossil fish. Modern #palaeontologists at the University of Birmingham have now learned even more about these unusual animals. Visit our new Temporary Exhibition to understand a world of Feeding Without Jaws!

Lapworth Volunteer and #palaeontologist Harry T. Jones has published an article with the @originalgcg.bsky.social! Visit the link to discover how modern #museum collections may be used. ow.ly/YNQ550Xu2LV #LapworthRocks #geologyrocks #geology #palaeontology #volunteer #news

Last #WhatsItWednesday we asked where you thought this scene was captured, and the answer is... Norway! Elijah Walton (1832–1880) was a landscape artist from Brum. The Museum holds beautiful chromo-lithograph plates which illustrate his 1848 book 'The Coast of Norway'. Image by Greg Milner.

This Weds 19th, join us for a 1920s lecture on our Dynamic Earth! Prof. Charles Lapworth will explore earthquakes & volcanoes accompanied by lantern slides & Museum objects. Then a panel of experts will discuss the historical & scientific context of the talk. Free tickets: lapworth-dynamic-ear...

We hope all attendees had a roarsome time in Birmingham for the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology 85th Annual Meeting! Image by Greg Milner. #geologyrocks #geology #palaeontology #paleontology #palaeo #paleo #zoology #fossils #minerals #museum #vertebrates #SVP2025 #2025SVP

This photograph was taken by Tempest Anderson at Vesuvius in 1885, now part of the Museum's lantern slide collection. Did you know we have an event on 19 Nov where we'll listen to a talk on earthquakes & volcanoes accompanied by lantern slides? Book your free tickets: lapworth-dynamic-ear...