Many Lancaster County families are already familiar with the North Museum’s natural wonders, from its live animal room to its ...

Daniel McDonald and Jack Gilbert (both University of California, San Diego; CA, USA) discuss the challenges faced during fecal sample collection and highlight important factors to consider when ...

I've visited the Field Museum for 21 years and finally got to tour one of its hidden collections. Researchers preserve and store 11 million wet specimens in the basement. Here are some of the most ...

The Illinois Natural History Survey has been working to preserve historical specimens of organisms that originated in ...

Ron Giegerich pulled out a drawer full of dead bluebirds. “These are great skins. Some are more than 100 years old and still intact,” he said. Giegerich, is an instructional support specialist at SUNY ...

CARBONDALE — The first thing to strike a visitor to the anteroom housing SIU’s massive collection of bird specimens is its seeming guardian: An enormous, immature bald eagle frozen in full spread-wing ...

Thousands of preserved bug specimens from around the world have made their way to UMass Lowell to help enhance the study of insects. Biological Sciences Asst. Prof. Christina Kwapich is the new ...

Specimen collection involves the capture and euthanasia of wildlife for scientific study. One camp of scientists holds that specimen collection is necessary to document a new species, while the other ...