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Lorenzo Ravalo

A left hand holding up a mussel shell

A peculiar case of mussels and merchandising

What can you say of the humble mussel? At face value, probably not much. Natural History Technician contractor Lorenzo Ravalo looks at what’s in a name when it comes to flexing our marketing mussels overseas.Read more

2022-08-02
By: Lorenzo Ravalo
On: 2 Aug 2022
In: Science

What’s in a name? Keeping up to date with the taxonomy of Philippine land snails

The process of collecting and identifying an organism is long and stringent. Despite this, mistakes can still be commonplace. Lorenzo Ravalo is a contractor working with us as a Natural History Technician and takes us through some of the challenges faced in keeping up to date with taxonomy. Identifying anRead more

2021-08-13
By: Lorenzo Ravalo
On: 13 Aug 2021
In: Science

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