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For spooky season, here's one of my favorite scientific illustrations: this goofy bat by Carl Linnaeus. #histsci 🗃️ #SciArt

From Manuscripta Medica Tom. I: linnean.access.preservica.com/uncategorize... Alice Cheetham and Steph Holt from the Linnean Society found a long-eared bat in their collections to compare it to: www.linnean.org/news/2024/06...

25/10/26, 12:23 am0 reposts2 likes

More about Carl Linnaeus's artistic skills: daily.jstor.org/was-carl-lin...

Inspired by this thread of medieval bats: bsky.app/profile/merc...

As Halloween is round the corner we thought we’d share some medieval bats. A thread… 🧵 🦇

well I think hes pretty good (commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:My..., pic by Dietmar Nill)