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'The last po’ouli died in an unusual nest. Too weak to perch, the brownish-greyish songbird rested in a small towel twisted into a ring.' Obituary for an extinct species by @helenrsullivan
Image of the never-to-be-seen-again bird by @Ricardomacia_
https://t.co/J7FoT0FcUF
'Thou hast light in dark, and shut'st in little room
Immensity, cloistered in thy dear womb.'
My favourite image of the Annunciation to the Blessed Virgin by my favourite painter, El Greco. 1597 @museodelprado
https://t.co/Vtdmfhx6S4
A proper Welsh dragon! Pendraig milnerae, a chicken-sized dinosaur who roamed the valleys of S. Wales 200 million years ago. She's now been named: pendraig = chief dragon; and for palaeontologist Angela Milner 🐉
https://t.co/0iksvkzG7j
I suppose even Noggin the Nog was naked under his gambeson! https://t.co/L6nZ0qHOgi
'Their wings are clear, their feelers ever-waving. Their back legs, when dressed in fluffy pollen trousers: heartbreaking.'
@helenrsullivan being brilliant on 🐝🐝🐝
https://t.co/KXukDA70MW
'`Whatever the men were doing, af Klint had probably done it first.' Hilma af Klint, pioneer of abstract art, and a new documentary about her work by Halina Dyrschka. The photo of the artist was taken in Stockholm in 1885. #womensart
https://t.co/etXoy4eeO0
Cool down in a garden with date palms and fig trees surrounding a blue pool. The scribe Nebamun took this image of his estate garden with him into the afterlife in 1350BC, Thebes, #Egypt @britishmuseum
https://t.co/7XRZWBFnO9
I've just been reminded by @doctorjamesfox of Barbara Hepworth's wonderful hospital drawings, made in 1948 at the birth of the #NHS
https://t.co/gPhlFynKYV