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 ...

For world pangolin day, learn more about how genetic researchers helped pinpoint a hidden lineage of the critically endangered mammals ...

Smithsonian scientists utilize a new formula to extract fragile genetic data from bats collected decades ago Jack Tamisiea Over the past 150 years, the National Museum of Natural History has compiled ...

Curatorial assistant Alifa Putri giving a tour to students during the public exhibition program of ‘125,660 Specimens of Natural History’ at Salihara (photo by Etienne Turpin) 125,660 Specimens of ...

This fall, the University of Michigan Museum of Zoology received a ‘hiss-toric’ delivery: approximately 30,000 jarred snake specimens from Oregon State University for research purposes. The new ...

Tyler Irvin, president of the UTA Herpetology Club, shows a student a jar of preserved rattlesnakes Feb. 6 during “A Night at ...

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 ...

In 1912, a group of intrepid explorers led by Rollo and Ida Beck, widely acknowledged to be the foremost marine bird collectors of their time, embarked on a most remarkable effort to catalogue South ...

ST PAUL, Minn. — Not far from the KARE 11 studio, at the University of Minnesota's Department of Entomology, there are millions of dead insects just hanging out in storage. So, naturally, we just had ...