American Museum of Natural History is visiting the department this week as part of his interview process and swung by the museum this afternoon! Being a bee man, he could not resist checking out our modest collection and shared with us interesting factoids about his favourite animals....
In what can be called an ‘accidental partnership’, Sang-kyu’s collaboration with the Raffles Museum started when he and research fellow, JC Mendoza, independently noticed, while looking at several specimens during their PhD research, that there was something “weird” about the common a...
A new book by M. K. Tan on Orthoptera in the Bukit Timah and Central Catchment Nature Reserves (Part 1): Suborder Caelifera has been published and is available for download [
To celebrate the upcoming Festival of Biodiversity, the Festival of Biodiversity committee is creating a mural mosaic of the logo of the festival (pictured above). Open to all members of the public, participate in this two-day workshop to contribute towards making the mural mosaic! Yo...
National Geographic: New Purple crab species found ; Inquirer News: New purple crab species found in Palawan ; Msnbc.com: Bright purple crab discovered in Philippines ; Our amazing planet: Bright purple crab discovered in Philippines ; Huffington Post: Purple crabs, including Insulamo...
Twinky, our baby Diplodocus is featured in the English and Mandarin press today. After a long sea journey, he arrived safe and sound in Sunny Singapore last Wednesday! The first (of the three) Diplodocus to make this journey, he took two days to clear customs, and our Dino team finall...
The RMBR crustacean team comprising of Professor Peter Ng, Dr. Joelle Lai and JC Mendoza are currently in wintery Washington D.C for a Xanthid workshop hosted by the Smithsonian Museum. This is the culmination of the second crustacean phylogeny project titled “Xanthid phylogeny: a rev...
Guinot, 1964 (Calappidae), has hitherto been known only from Somalia and the Red Sea (Galil, 1997).We here report the species from the Gulf of Oman. Aspects of its taxonomy and nomenclature are also discussed. Specimens examined are deposited in the Zoology Museum of the University of...
Swimming into the Record: Feature on Gobies in My Green Space (a quarterly newsletter by NParks Apr-Jun 2012) The Bornean Frog Race 2012 New Purple Crab Species found in Philippines: Features in The Straits Times and National Geographic Daily News RMBR Children’s Season Open House 201...
RMBR Children’s Season Open House 2012 (19th May, Saturday, 9am-5pm) Temporary closure of Raffles Museum of Biodiversity Research collections May/Aug 2012 – Feb 2014 Public Perception on Dolphins in Captivity – the Singapore Story Ecosystem modification from tropical forest degradatio...
The indigenous Blue Crab of Christmas Island, previously misidentified as “Discoplax hirtipes (Dana, 1851)”, is here recognised as a distinct new species, D. celeste . In addition to its unique blue-coloured carapace when adult, the new species can be distinguished from true D. hirtip...
They are here at the invitation of the museum to study hermit crab material collected from the PANGLAO 2004 and 2005 expeditions with the aim of producing a series of papers documenting the diversity of hermit crabs collected from these expeditions. Only a few days into their study, t...
Leong, T. M. & K. K. P. Lim, 2012. Record of the bagworm moth, Mahasena corbetti Tams in Singapore (Lepidoptera: Psychidae). Nature in Singapore , 5 : 1–5. [PDF , 670 KB] Abdul Razak Jaffar, 2012. Observations of the dragonfly, Camacinia gigantea (Brauer) at the Night Safari, Singapor...
With much anticipation, the Semakau intertidal walk for the public has started once again to kick start the new year of 2012! Our very first walk this year took place in the afternoon of 8 January, with 46 participants from the public and 12 trainees a.k.a. soon-to-be RMBR Nature Guid...
Part-time student assistant help wanted for forest work with CTFS 14 January 2012 CDTL’s new e-learning module on Oral Presentation Skills for students 13 January 2012 A Navjot Sodhi module objective: “I just wanna teach them some empathy” 12 January 2012 Maiden lectures today by Ming...
The Fauna of the Native Garden @ HortPark: Birds, Fishes, Amphibians, Reptiles, Butterflies, Moths, Dragonflies, and Damselflies has been published by A. F. S. L. Lok, W. F. Ang, H. T. W. Tan, R. T. Corlett & P. Y. Tan (eds.) and is available for download. [
Asian Youth Journal of Biology – Accepting Online Manuscripts Now! Behaviour and Acoustics of Whales and the Threats Whales Face by Roger Payne Ph.D Happy Chinese New Year! Five questions with… Dr Tan Swee Hee (The Straits Times, 31 December 2011)
CDTL’s new e-learning module on Oral Presentation Skills for students 13 January 2012 A Navjot Sodhi module objective: “I just wanna teach them some empathy” 12 January 2012 Maiden lectures today by Mingko and Dan in ecology and coastal management! 12 January 2012 Dan the man is in ge...
Behaviour and Acoustics of Whales and the Threats Whales Face by Roger Payne Ph.D Happy Chinese New Year! Five questions with… Dr Tan Swee Hee (The Straits Times, 31 December 2011) Reservoirs of richness: least disturbed tropical forests are centres of undescribed species diversity In...
Five questions with… Dr Tan Swee Hee (The Straits Times, 31 December 2011) Reservoirs of richness: least disturbed tropical forests are centres of undescribed species diversity Indonesia’s REDD+ pact: Saving imperiled forests or business as usual? Articles Published by Dr Maurice Kott...
Five questions with… Dr Tan Swee Hee (The Straits Times, 31 December 2011) Posted on 4 January 2012 by dbsnlls Click on image to download pdf. Five questions with… Dr Tan Swee Hee Biologist Tan Swee Hee is in charge of setting up Singapore’s first dedicated natural history museum in f...
In the last few decades, there has been a remarkable discovery of new species of plants, invertebrates and vertebrates, in what have been called the new age of discovery. However, owing to anthropogenic impacts such as habitat conversion, many of the still unknown species may go extin...
Indonesia and Norway have entered into a landmark deal that will pay Indonesia up to US$1 billion for forest-conservation activities aimed at slowing rampant deforestation and resulting greenhouse gas emissions. A recent Presidential Instruction in Indonesia outlines a key deliverable...
Kottelat, Maurice, H. H. Tan (2011) Systomus xouthos , a new cyprinid fish from Borneo, and revalidation of Puntius pulcher (Teleostei: Cyprinidae). Ichthylogical Exploration of Freshwaters , 22 (3): 209-214. Abstract: Systomus xouthos , new species, is described from Belait and Tuton...
The Project Semakau free intertidal walks (sponsored by the HSBC) have benefited more than 800 students from schools across Singapore for the year of 2011. This year, in conjunction with the project’s third year in running, a photo-movie contest was also organized with the aim of crea...
Leong, T. M., 2011. Observations of pupal eclosion and pheromone release in the oleander hawkmoth, Daphnis nerii (Linnaeus, 1758) (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae: Macroglossinae). Nature in Singapore , 4 : 369–375. [PDF , 1.62 MB] Lim, K. K. P. & H. H. Tan, 2011. Addition of three cyprinid f...
Click on image to download pdf. 巧手＂抢救＂动物标本 早报 21 December 2011 本地第一家自然历史博物馆 － 李光前自然历史博物馆再过两年落成，修复展出标本的工作已如火如茶地展开。 新加坡国立大学属下的莱佛士生物多样性研究博物馆（RAFFLES MUSEUM OF BIODIVERSITY RESEARCH，简称 RMBR）日前就迎来独立建国后，第一位标本保护员，负责修复及保护馆中的部分收藏，为李光前自然历史博物馆的开幕提前做准备。 这名年仅２５岁的英国籍女性标本保护员凯特 （KATE POCKLINGTON）本月初抵...
Clean-up at the museum (The Straits Times, 21 December 2011) Posted on 21 December 2011 by dbsnlls Click on image to download pdf. Clean-up at the museum Grace Chua 21st December 2011 The pair of orang utans, one male and one female, had languished in the closet for years – their hide...
On average, one new species of plants and animals was found every two days last year in the Greater Mekong region. The 208 species discovered included a new monkey, a wolf snake and a self-cloning lizard, the World Wide Fund for Nature said this week. A highly threated biodiversity ho...
The Raffles Museum Toddycats has once again set up another exhibition at the Geylang East Public Library on the 10th of December 2011! There turn up was great and there were many children participating in the activities the Toddycats planned of the event.
