The ongoing effort captures high-quality images and collection data in seconds, creating an online database of bees, beetles, ...
This article was originally published on Undark. In a dusty room in central Florida, countless millipedes, centipedes, and other creepy-crawlies sit in specimen jars, rotting. The invertebrates are ...
In the foothills of the Ecuadorean Amazon, a 101-year-old farmer and a young scientist turned an amateur collection into a scientific survey of one of the most diverse snake habitats on Earth.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
A Galápagos tortoise specimen from the California Academy of Sciences Kevin Twomey In the spring of 1905, eight researchers from the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco set sail on a ...