Tannis Davidson's guest appearances

Tannis Davidson

Trees A Crowd

UCL Minds

FLOPCAST

Helen Chatterjee

Sarah Wilkes

Joe Cain

Mandana Seyfeddinipur

Suzy White

Silvia Schievano

Edward Davey

Barry Hancock

Hannah Cornish

Delphine Mercier

Thomas Kador

Zoe Laughlin

Subhadra Das

Andrea Fredericksen

Grayson Perry

OwlTail

Tannis Davidson, Curator of the Grant Museum of Zoology, discusses the mystery of the Grant Museum’s Rhamphorhynchus Pterosaur fossil.

FLOPCAST: Tannis Davidson on the Pterosaur fossil

This is the eleventh episode of a podcast mini-series to accompany FLOP 13 Stories of Failure, a free exhibition at the UCL Octagon Gallery open from 21 October 2019 to 10 April 2020. The exhibition has been commissioned by UCL Culture and curated by Thomas Kador (UCL Arts &amp; Sciences). It shines a spotlight on a topic that most of us rather avoid and not talk about and investigates (through 13 stories) what happens when things go wrong. The FLOPCAST series comprises 15 different voices, all experts in their fields, discussing some of the objects on display at the exhibition to tell these stories of failure. The intention is that the podcasts can be accessed both while people are looking at the exhibits and independently without having visited the exhibition. In this eleventh episode Tannis Davidson discusses the mystery of the Grant Museum’s Rhamphorhynchus Pterosaur fossil.

FLOPCAST Ep 11 Tannis Davidson

Tannis Davidson is the curator of the Grant Museum of Zoology and Comparative Anatomy at University College London. From unearthing the dismembered arms of mummies at archaeological digs in Egypt to searching for fossils in Beijing, Tannis has a rich history in researching and examining the stories of the once living. As one of the few people in the world who takes care of animals only once they've died, Tannis' work has her looking after 68,000 specimens. One of the museum’s many accolades is that it houses one of only seven existing quagga skeletons in the world - a type of zebra that is now extinct. Other specimens include biological tissue from the Tasmanian tiger, an elephant tusk with an antique bullet encased within it, a gorilla skeleton which was once photographed hugging H.G.Wells… and a jar of moles! Why not become a "Subscription Squirrel" on our Patreon, and help support the production of this podcast? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Tannis Davidson is the curator of the Grant Museum of Zoology and Comparative Anatomy at University College London. From unearthing the dismembered arms of mummies at archaeological digs in Egypt to searching for fossils in Beijing, Tannis has a rich history in researching and examining the stories of the once living. As one of the few people in the world who takes care of animals only once they've died, Tannis' work has her looking after 68,000 specimens. One of the museum’s many accolades is that it houses one of only seven existing quagga skeletons in the world - a type of zebra that is now extinct. Other specimens include biological tissue from the Tasmanian tiger, an elephant tusk with an antique bullet encased within it, a gorilla skeleton which was once photographed hugging H.G.Wells… and a jar of moles! <a href="https://open.acast.com/public/patreon/fanSubscribe/4241294" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Why not become a "Subscription Squirrel" on our Patreon, and help support the production of this podcast?</a> Hosted on Acast. See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.

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