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The HMS Challenger Project Team visiting museums

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Hello! Heather here. Recently Holly and I spent the week at the Natural History Museum in London. This is packed with specimens dredged and trawled by HMS Challenger – most departments will have some sitting in their store cupboards somewhere! NHM (previously the British Museum) took in all the types collected from the expedition before passing off some … Read more

March’s Molluscs

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March’s Molluscs!   Today I will tell you about some of the molluscs found on the Challenger expedition along the way – more specifically, the octopus (read about January’s jellyfish here). Above are pictures of cuttlefish and octopus found on the expedition. Firstly – what are molluscs? These are a very large phylum of invertebrates with … Read more