Mike G. Rutherford

Having trouble identifying some shark jaws in the University of Glasgow collections, they were originally part of the Dental School collection. They are about 8 cm wide, each of the big teeth is about 1 cm. Any help? #shark #teeth

01.08.2025 14:25 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Just visited The Stewartry Museum in Kirkcudbright, lovely wee natural science collection with some great dried/taxidermied fish.

23.07.2025 10:33 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Just in time for the end of World Oceans Day 2025. A common northern comb jelly, I saw lots of them on a snorkel in Eyemouth Bay the other week, beautiful but tricky to get in focus.

08.06.2025 21:58 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Working on the Materia Medica collection today, mostly plant based but does include these jars of dried snake venom, from a cobra and a viper. Collected in 1902 by a Capt. Lamb, probably in India. I wonder if he extracted it himself or if an unnamed local person did the dangerous part? #snakevenom

06.06.2025 14:52 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Happy Old Croone Day! Sharing one of my favourite spirit specimens in the UofG collection in memory of William Croone presenting dog embryos preserved in alcohol to the Royal Society of London in 1662. It was the beginning of scientific fluid preservation. I'll have a wee dram later to celebrate 😉

04.06.2025 10:38 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Hello. Time to introduce myself, here I am with a piece of blue whale baleen from the University of Glasgow collections where I'm Curator of Zoology & Anatomy. The plate was donated by Salvesen & Co whaling company in 1925, making it 100 years old, which is exactly twice my age as today is my 50th!

03.04.2025 06:33 — 👍 15    🔁 4    💬 2    📌 0