Unique feeding behaviour: snail-eating snakes extract soft body of the prey using their mandibles 🐌🐍

Kojima et al 2020 Mandibular sawing in a snail-eating
https://t.co/IyEvPLytB2

📹👇Video (from the supplementary material)
https://t.co/BTxPzScng9

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With the lovely reading rooms beginning their re-opening last week, we thought we'd dip in and share some extracts from our very own 'Reading Room: A Year of Literary Curiosities' - a quirky showcase of the best and most unusual items in the Library’s collection.

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Studying

This August we’ll be sharing selected extracts from , London books to help students take and get familiar with key themes ranging from portraits to painting technique. More to come!

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✨ stary stary night pie ✨

Thin pie crust, with liquid dream extract topped with night sky foam and wishing stars! The perfect gift for any celebration!

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Celebrating the phased re-opening of the 's we've been sharing daily extracts from our very own 'Reading Room: A Year of Literary Curiosities' - a quirky showcase of the best and most unusual items in the British Library’s collection!

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Happy Monday from a very fluffy, quite grumpy feline - coming to bookshops near you very, very soon!
Brighten up your Monday morning and meet Pie himself in this extract: https://t.co/Yvi0xak0Vx

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前腕部のみMaskからExtractしてhpolishでエッジを立てて作ってみたが、当たり前の事ながらシルエットが太くなってしまってダメな感じだ。マスクでsplitして磨いた方がいいみたい。隙間は出来てしまうだろうが、むしろ多少隙間があった方が好みなので、これでやってみよう

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So I’m probably doing this all wrong but i was able to extract a mask of the scalp with thickness and just pulling the mesh around.. but omg

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Images from the discoveries, I dodn't extract them, just saved them from the findings in the hidden palace server. More..

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To coincide with the phased re-opening of our wonderful Reading Rooms at the this week, we've been dipping into our very own shelf-sized version - 'Reading Room: A Year of Literary Curiosities', filled with an evocative and thought-provoking extract for each day!

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The extract from Tilly and the Map of Stories that's online is from a bookwandering scene that took *~ages~* to write. Ten points to anyone who can guess where Tilly and Oskar are from Paola Escobar's gorgeous illustration...

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Our wonderful Reading Rooms began their phased re-opening yesterday, so we're celebrating with extracts from our very own 'Reading Room: A Year of Literary Curiosities' by Ian Sansom.

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46 - Paras
Type: Bug/Grass

The tochukaso growing on this POKéMON's back orders it to extract juice from tree trunks.

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Our wonderful have begun their phased re-opening today! If you're missing them like we are, our title 'Reading Room: A Year of Literary Curiosities' is the perfect remedy - 365 extracts taken straight from the archives.

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Sparsely populated by Nomads, the Badlands are the vast plains outside of the city proper. Unchecked resource extraction, burning oil fields, rampant pollution; this district makes Night City feel like a rich oasis. But it holds golden opportunities for those in the know.

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For I work hard to extract the art at the best quality, and bringing all sorts of weird, rare artwork to the light

This month we’ve got some great games - including:

Pokemon (Game Boy)
Tetris (NES)
MERCS (Mega Drive)
1999 N64 Hardware (N64)
Yoshi's Story (N64)

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Just one more day until the begins its phased re-opening of the and we couldn't be more excited - so we're sharing passages from our very own 'Reading Room: A Year of Literary Curiosities', 365 extracts pulled straight from the brilliant BL archives;

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creatures of all kinds that live in the water The Water Fairies…extract from ‘The Foundling Fairy’. Only 1 left on Amazon at a bargain price. Any takers?
https://t.co/Qmp1p2xFyC
https://t.co/K4jwhZX3uc

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To celebrate the first-phase of the 's re-opening of the Reading Rooms this week, we're dipping into our own 'Reading Room: A Year of Literary Curiosities' to provide a thought-provoking extract from July!

What quote does today's date bring?

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Calling all Your 75-word are wanted! Take the Paragraph Planet and a story in exactly 75 words (novel extracts also welcome). There has been a different story on the home page of the website every day since 2008. https://t.co/zEsiDVFDCx Pls RT

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