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AUMNH @aumnh.bsky.social · 1d

🍄This fungi is in the mood for Spooky Season by sporting its Halloween colors! Chanterelles are known as "The Jack-o-Lantern mushroom" because their orange color!🎃

Join our #MarbleBowl team: aub.ie/marblebowlAU

✨Credit user dattijfish on @inaturalist.bsky.social
✨Chanterelles (Genus Cantharellus)

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AUMNH @aumnh.bsky.social · 2d

✨ Meet Emery! ✨

📚 Emery’s our AUTeach Outreach Intern & helps run educational programs/events. She’s a Biology & Science Education student who loves seeing students excited about discovering nature!

Stay tuned for our next #MeetTheTeamMonday!

#MuseumMonday #aumnh #auburnuniversity

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AUMNH @aumnh.bsky.social · 9d

✨ Meet Wendy! ✨

🦇 Dr. Wendy Hood, Professor & Curator of Mammals, studies animal physiology & mitochondria. She’s tracked seals, bats, & more, and loves wildlife tracking!

📍Meet the amazing team behind our museum on #MeetTheTeamMonday!

#MuseumMonday #aumnh #auburnuniversity

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AUMNH @aumnh.bsky.social · 16d

✨ Meet Jon! ✨

🐟 Dr. Jon Armbruster, our Director & Curator of Fishes, explores freshwater fish biodiversity worldwide. He loves expanding our knowledge of Earth’s diversity!

📍Discover the people who bring our museum alive! #MuseumMonday

#MeetTheTeamMonday #aumnh #auburnuniversity

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AUMNH @aumnh.bsky.social · 22d

Stop by Cater Lawn today, now until 2pm to learn more!

#auburnuniversity #studyabroad #CostaRica

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AUMNH @aumnh.bsky.social · 22d

🌿✈️ Are you a student ready for an adventure of a lifetime?

Spend Spring Break 2026 exploring Costa Rica!

📍La Selva Biological Station • Volcano Arenal • Palo Verde National Park
🗓️ March 6-13, 2026
⭐️ Apply by October 8th: aub.ie/CostaRica

🐒☀️🐍🐠🐛🌳

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AUMNH @aumnh.bsky.social · 23d

✨ Meet Emmy! ✨

🦞 Emmy Delekta is our Staff Curator & Collections Manager of
Invertebrate Zoology. She cares for our invertebrate collections!

🤩Her favorite part of the job? Every day is different!

📍Stay tuned for next #MuseumMonday!

#aumnh #MeetTheTeamMonday #auburnuniversity

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AUMNH @aumnh.bsky.social · 27d

THANK YOU to all our supporters who helped us reach our #tigergivingday goal!!

Blue is so excited for his new habitat!

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AUMNH @aumnh.bsky.social · 28d

Tiger Giving Day is HERE! Help us build a new habitat for Blue, the Eastern Indigo Snake! 🐍

Give today⬇️
🔗 aub.ie/TGD25Blue

AUMNH @aumnh.bsky.social · 28d

It’s HERE!! Join us this #tigergivingday to tell the indigo snake’s story!

aub.ie/TGD25Blue

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AUMNH @aumnh.bsky.social · 29d

Tiger Giving Day is tomorrow! And you can support building Blue, our Eastern Indigo Snake a new home!

🔗 aub.ie/TGD25Blue

#auburnuniversity #tigergivingday #easternindigosnake

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AUMNH @aumnh.bsky.social · 29d

Tiger Giving Day is tomorrow! And you can support building Blue, our Eastern Indigo Snake a new home!

🔗 aub.ie/TGD25Blue

#auburnuniversity #tigergivingday #easternindigosnake

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AUMNH @aumnh.bsky.social · Sep 3

Happening TODAY from 5:30-7 P

a cat peeking out from behind a wall with the words see you soon written below it

ALT: a cat peeking out from behind a wall with the words see you soon written below it

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AUMNH @aumnh.bsky.social · Sep 1

✨Meet Tom!✨

🦖Dr. Tom Cullen, Assistant Professor & Curator of Paleontology, researches how ancient ecosystems evolved and loves fossil hunting!

📍 Stay tuned each #MeetTheTeamMonday as we highlight the amazing people behind the museum!

#MuseumMonday #aumnh #auburnuniversity

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AUMNH @aumnh.bsky.social · Aug 29

🔍 Join us at our Open House for a behind the scenes look at AUMNH!

📅 Wed. Sept 3 | 5:30–7 PM
✨ Explore our collections
✨ Meet the curators
✨ Discover Auburn’s biodiversity
📍 Auburn University Museum of Natural History

🎟️ Free + open to the public!
#aumnh #auburnuniversity

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AUMNH @aumnh.bsky.social · Aug 26

Another great use of our specimens!

Dynamognathus @dynamoterror.bsky.social · Aug 26

I did some rough photoshop-scaling attempts for the illustration I made, and (when copying the proportions of an extant relative) got full-body lengths of between 43 and 33 centimeters. I am very grateful to the @aumnh.bsky.social for letting me photograph their Red Hills Salamander specimen.

Several rough sketches of outlines of Dynamognathus in dorsal view, next to stitched-together scale bars and figures of the actual bones from the paper, in addition to photographs of a Red Hills Salamander specimen for comparison.

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AUMNH @aumnh.bsky.social · Aug 25

✨ Meet Curtis! ✨

🌿 Curtis loves introducing people to plants and lichens through talks, field trips, and outreach programs!

📍Stay tuned each #MeetTheTeamMonday as we highlight the amazing people who make the museum come alive behind the scenes!

#MuseumMonday #aumnh #auburnuniversity

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AUMNH @aumnh.bsky.social · Aug 22

🐝🌻From the Field Friday, with the #GreatSoutheastPollinatorCensus, August 22-24!

🌸Pick a plant
⏱️Watch your plant for 15 minutes
🪲Count and categorize using the insect counting data sheet
👩🏻‍💻Submit your data GSePC.org

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AUMNH @aumnh.bsky.social · Aug 18

In our Shiny Bug Era 💖🪲🦋❤️‍🔥

#ts12 #theshinybugcollection #entomology #beetles #truebug #naturalhistory #aumnh

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AUMNH @aumnh.bsky.social · Aug 15

Hanging on by a thread? Shed your weekday stress away and fly free this weekend

#DYK cicada nymphs live under ground, feeding off of tree root sap, when they are ready to emerge into adults they climb up and shed, leaving their exoskeleton behind

#fridayfeeling #cicada #aumnh #dogdays #dusksinging

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AUMNH @aumnh.bsky.social · Aug 1

#DYK we host FREE behind-the-scenes tours on the First Wednesday of every month?? We still have space available for Wednesday, August 6th!

Registration is required
🔗 aub.ie/Tours

#aumnh #auburnuniversity #firstwednesday

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AUMNH @aumnh.bsky.social · Jul 25

🐛🦋Happy #MothWeek brought to you by a new record of a leaf blotched miner moth in Alabama!

🔬🌿Leaf-miner moths are considered micro moths and get their name because the caterpillar leaf-s behind a tunnel as they eat and grow

#alabamabiodiversity #lepidoptera #nationalmothweek #aumnh #inaturalist

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AUMNH @aumnh.bsky.social · Jul 24

A throwback to all the happy faces at our Wehle Nature Explorers Camp last week 😁🐍🪲🌻

#throwbackthursday #auburnuniversity #wehlenaturecenter #aumnh #summercamp #wehlenatureexplorers #getoutside #outdooralabama

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AUMNH @aumnh.bsky.social · Jul 2

This #wildwednesday is brought to you by our live animal ambassador collection enjoying some enrichment!

#aumnh #auburnuniversity #snakes #officehelper #animalenrichment #snaketree #swimming

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AUMNH @aumnh.bsky.social · Jun 6

That #FridayFeeling brought to you from our Curious Curators!

#sciencematters #cosam #aumnh #summercamp #auburnuniversity #outreach

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