I spend a fair amount of time talking about this amazing ant paper from last year: www.nature.com/articles/s41... where the females produce offspring of two different species! Wild! 🐜

MERRY FESTIVE SEASON! Please enjoy our last episode of 2025 m.youtube.com/watch?v=ekkC... Brilliant festive stories from around the world from @joshlukedavis.com and @nhcooper123.bsky.social illustrated by some incredible specimens, including some very historically important models. 🍄

New episode just dropped! Check out YOUNG! www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUh_... @nhcooper123.bsky.social describes the most amazing and confusing life cycles in animals, and @joshlukedavis.com has a great story about nuns...

🎃 Happy Halloween! 🦇

If you're going to watch one episode of @perfect-specimen.bsky.social, then how about the one in which me and Natalie put on some very silly costumes to talk about some spooooky specimens 👻
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GdN...

Spoiler for the next episode: it’s a SPOOKY special…we recommend watching the video for this one if only for the first 5 mins. You won’t be disappointed 🎃.

See we did actually answer your Qs!

Here’s the Q and A. Fixing @nhcooper123.bsky.social terrible error in NOXIOUS (among other things) m.youtube.com/watch?v=T0ji...

Last chance to ask us any questions about the last 9 episodes of Perfect Specimen as we’re recording the Q&A tomorrow!

It requires very little to get me and @joshlukedavis.com talking about space monkeys (and dogs, cats, mice, turtles, cockroaches, flies etc.)

That’s the face of someone thinking really hard about ants 🐜 🐜 🐜

If you're enjoying the Perfect Specimen we'd love to collect any questions you have for Josh and Natalie (or Producers Ben and Duncan), about their chosen specimens, the Museum, natural history, making the podcast etc. for a special Q & A episode. No Qs means more waffle. You have been warned!

It’s our most controversial episode yet! What do Josh and Natalie think is OVERRATED? Do you agree???

m.youtube.com/watch?v=2IKx...

Our new podcast series 'The Perfect Specimen' continues with our hosts bringing unique specimens that encapsulate a new word each episode.

Ever wanted to learn more about our weird and wonderful collections?
Search 'The Perfect Specimen' wherever you listen to podcasts!

It's time for FRESH! Josh and Natalie had quite different interpretations for this one... And a bit of communist confusion from Producer Ben www.youtube.com/watch?v=317u...

Sea cucumber or psychedelic pomegranate?🤔

Listen to our new podcast 'The Perfect Specimen' to discover weird, wonderful and often surprising sides of nature through hearing about our specimens.

Listen now wherever you get your podcasts! And let us know what you think of the episodes so far 👇

Join us next time for EXUBERANT... And remember if you have any Qs please send them in or comment wherever you've been listening. We'll have a special Q&A episode later in the series!

YouTube: m.youtube.com/watch?v=yGcF...

Note we were still faffing with the cameras in this one, it gets better I think…