“What we did not know is that Livingstone’s expedition collected proper scientific specimens of beetles, and that these had survived,” says Barclay. Before the box was discovered, curators knew of ...
CAMBRIDGE – One August day in 1922, 7-year-old David Rockefeller plucked up an inch-long brown beetle with pinching jaws and put it in a jar to bring home, the first specimen of an enduring vocation ...
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 gorgeous rainbow-tinted beetle has become the six millionth specimen to be digitised by our scientists. The insect not only marks a major milestone, but also highlights the power of digitising our ...
The Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture is filled with dead animal specimens. Specimens are like a time capsule of information of the living ecosystem, telling a story about how a species ...
This Halloween season, learn how the National Museum of Natural History’s dermestid beetle colony transforms decaying animal carcasses into spotless skeletons. Emma Saaty The Smithsonian’s Osteo Prep ...
A researcher discovered an interesting tiger beetle in the Midwestern State University insect collection. The MSU Texas collection, featuring specimens collected by the late Walter Dalquest, is ...
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