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Specimen Showcase | Marine Mad-hatter🎩
When we come across strong sunlight☀️, we cannot forget to put on some sunscreen or a hat👒. Surprisingly, just like us, some marine...

Hong Kong Biodiversity Museum
Mar 10


Specimen Showcase | Cookies Under the Sea
A strange, round, white and hard organism has washed up on the beach. Looking carefully, you may notice a pattern on top of it, like a...

Hong Kong Biodiversity Museum
Mar 10


Specimen Showcase | 📢 Musical Space Cowboys
🖌️ Kaloula pulchra (Gray, 1831), the Asiatic painted bullfrog, is a species of narrow-mouthed frog found naturally in Hong Kong and...

Hong Kong Biodiversity Museum
Mar 10


Specimen Showcase | Baby Launcher Toad
Many animals have become masters of camouflage, blending so well with the substrate in which they live on that they are hardly...

Hong Kong Biodiversity Museum
Mar 10


Specimen Showcase | The Poisonous “Revenge”☠️
You are most certainly all familiar with the terms of frogs and toads. However, do you know how to differentiate them🤔? And did you know...

Hong Kong Biodiversity Museum
Mar 10


Specimen Showcase | The Chosen Newt of Hong Kong
Mountain streams are an oasis for most animals foraging in the hot summer including people visiting nature; a place where you can feel...

Hong Kong Biodiversity Museum
Mar 10


Specimen Showcase | Colourful Characters
Chameleons are certainly some of the most amazing animals in the world! These highly specialised lizards boast a suite of unique...

Hong Kong Biodiversity Museum
Mar 10


Specimen Showcase | The Comedian Snake
Most people enjoy a good play or movie.🍿 While we appreciate the acting of comedians🤡, humans do not have the monopoly of it. Indeed,...

Hong Kong Biodiversity Museum
Mar 10


Specimen Showcase | Dragons in the Forest🐉
Have you ever dreamed of gliding from one tree to another🌴? If you did, then you may be inspired by the lizard genus 𝘋𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘰...

Hong Kong Biodiversity Museum
Mar 10


Specimen Showcase | Super-gecko🦎
The sight of a gecko running on a vertical surface is common in Hong Kong, including within homes. Indeed, many people will welcome this...

Hong Kong Biodiversity Museum
Mar 10


Specimen Showcase | Social Distancing with the Chinese Cobra
Today our species on focus is as much feared than it is respected. The Chinese Cobra🐍 is one of the species that features in the set of...

Hong Kong Biodiversity Museum
Mar 10


Specimen Showcase | Meet the Frilled Lizard: A Real-life Dinosaur-looking Creature🦕!
Get ready to meet one of the coolest lizards on the planet – the frilled lizard🦎! Imagine walking in the Australian outback and bumping...

Hong Kong Biodiversity Museum
Mar 10


Specimen Showcase|The Gargantuan Python 🐍
The Burmese python, 𝘗𝘺𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘯 𝘣𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘵𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘴 (Buhl,1820), is native to the tropical rainforests of Southeast Asia with its range...

Hong Kong Biodiversity Museum
Mar 10


Specimen Showcase | Snake or Worm?
Appearances can sometimes be deceiving🤥. At first sight what may look like a large earthworm moving silently onto the floor through the...

Hong Kong Biodiversity Museum
Mar 10


Specimen Showcase|The Sea Snake that Uses its Forehead to Breathe🧘🏻♀️
While diving in the Indo-Australian Ocean, a slender object with bandings on its back catches your eye. What could it be👀? You just met...

Hong Kong Biodiversity Museum
Mar 10


Specimen Showcase|A Lizard with a Distinctive Tail
𝘌𝘨𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘪𝘢 𝘥𝘦𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘢 (Günther, 1875) is a large skink endemic to the Western Australia, Northern Territory and South Australia...

Hong Kong Biodiversity Museum
Mar 10


Specimen Showcase | Ocean's Precious Gem🏺
The Hawksbill Sea Turtle (𝘌𝘳𝘦𝘵𝘮𝘰𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘭𝘺𝘴 𝘪𝘮𝘣𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘢) 🔬 (Linnaeus, 1766) is a fascinating species playing a crucial...

Hong Kong Biodiversity Museum
Mar 10


Specimen Showcase | Hammerhead
Our classical view of the shape of an organism's head is round or ovoid. Some species, however, have evolved completely different shapes,...

Hong Kong Biodiversity Museum
Mar 10


Specimen Showcase | “Haunting” Ghost Shark
Halloween is often associated with spooky and scary stories filled with ghosts and monsters👻. Do you believe that scary looking...

Hong Kong Biodiversity Museum
Mar 10


Specimen Showcase | Angel in the Sea 🦈
Sharks, unfortunately, do not always have the best reputation😥, indeed only about 65 attacks are recorded annually all over the world...

Hong Kong Biodiversity Museum
Mar 10
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