Scientists document the diversity of life by making specimens of whole animals for natural history collections. But this practice is fading, and it’s a problem for current and future researchers. For ...

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 ...

On the fourth floor of Noland hall, a fully articulated chimpanzee skeleton and taxidermy wolf block the whiteboard in a discussion room. Cabinets line the walls, and inside researchers can find ...

The popular Oklahoma museum recently started its 15th year, and its parent company, Skulls Unlimited, celebrates its 40th ...

When museums acquire mammal specimens, they do more than stuff the creatures and arrange them in display cases. Mammalogists also record when and where the animals were found, what climates they ...

Researchers discovered that a poison frog species described decades ago was based on a mix-up involving the wrong museum ...

Specimens like these at Dublin’s Natural History Museum contain valuable information about the evolution of pathogens and host organisms. Kieran Guckian via Flickr under CC BY 2.0 In less than 20 ...

While much has been written about Yellowstone National Park, few historians have discussed the history of its wildlife, particularly before 1916 when the National Park Service was established.

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