And the winner is? 🥁

Sloths!

You voted, we deliver.

L: Linnaeus's two-toed sloth (Choloepus didactylus). R: Hoffmann's two-toed sloth (C. hoffmanni). by J.G. Keulemans in Proceedings of the (1872) via : https://t.co/LL5IryIg2s

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1607-Tyrrell & 1608-Linnaeus. Friends ordered.

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Carl Linnaeus was born in 1707. Have you seen our Linnean Correspondence collection? https://t.co/hVGANf40XU We have digitised letters sent & received by the great man himself. To also celebrate we have found this letter sent to him by Thomas Pennant.

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Maria Sibylla Merian created gorgeous scientific illustrations--like this one featuring guava & a tiger butterfly. Linnaeus used her images to help inform his work, but her legacy is comparably unknown to his. Our new YA bio explores her life and art: https://t.co/cS81MmsMaf

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Karl, Get Out of the Garden: Carolus Linnaeus and the Naming of Everything--in such great company on the Bank Street List of Best Children's Books

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Today we celebrate Botanist Elisabeth Christina von Linne (Linnaeus). She is the 1st white female botanist in Sweden & the 1st to describe the optic phenomenon of "flashing flowers", now named the Elizabeth Linnaeus Phenomenon.
https://t.co/oQzs9h5Vbx

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From "Description des plantes d'Amérique" by Plumier (1693) & "Species Plantarum" by (1753) to date, laurifolia is still stirring discussions.

A new lectotype proposed in research just published with us: ttps://doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.95.22324

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So pleased--I just heard from Charlesbridge that they've sold translation rights to my bio of Linnaeus--Karl, Get Out of the Garden--to a Russian publisher! Science is truly an international language, as Karl always hoped.

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Kitty Linnaeus wants to remind you there's not much time left on our https://t.co/LsGmUIMY3F

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タイリクオオカミ(学名:Canis lupus Linnaeus, 1758)

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To Linnaeus the 2 halves of this shell recalled the shape of a heart. Cardium humanum Knight Vol 2 (1843–45).

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≪Linnaeus≫リンナエウスまとめて四枚

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Linnaeus/Tyrrell 林老師的小強科普
對小強G也很有興趣的林奈對泰瑞爾發廚^^ 泰瑞爾:「快把那個拿走!!!!!!」

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