Tag: Natural history collections
Why dozens of North American bird species are getting new names:...
Jared Del Rosso, University of Denver
This winter, tens of thousands of birders will survey winter bird populations for...
Colonialism has shaped scientific plant collections around the world – here’s...
Daniel Park, Purdue University
Some of the world’s most popular museums are natural history collections: Think of dinosaur fossils,...
Leprosy-causing bacteria found in armadillo specimens highlight value of museum collections...
Daniel Romero-Alvarez, University of Kansas
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Digital sound archives can bring extinct birds (briefly) back to life
Hannah Hunter, Queen's University, Ontario
When people think of extinct animals, they may picture taxidermy, skeletons, 19th-century illustrations or...
Museum specimens could help fight the next pandemic – why preserving...
Jocelyn P. Colella, University of Kansas and Bryan McLean, University of North Carolina – Greensboro
Imagine yourself as the first naturalist to stand in a...
Museums preserve clues that can help scientists predict and analyze future...
Pamela Soltis, University of Florida; Joseph Cook, University of New Mexico, and Richard Yanagihara, University of Hawaii
In less than 20 years, communities around the...