MONTGOMERY COUNTY, Va. (WRIC) — A rare collection of plant specimens dating back to the 1840s and originating from the southeastern United States has arrived at the herbarium at Virginia Tech.

Ron Giegerich pulled out a drawer full of dead bluebirds. “These are great skins. Some are more than 100 years old and still intact,” he said. Giegerich, is an instructional support specialist at SUNY ...

Thousands of preserved bug specimens from around the world have made their way to UMass Lowell to help enhance the study of insects. Biological Sciences Asst. Prof. Christina Kwapich is the new ...

Since 2024, the Museum of Biodiversity on the first floor of Jordan Hall of Science has displayed taxidermy animals, with ...

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 ...

CARBONDALE — The first thing to strike a visitor to the anteroom housing SIU’s massive collection of bird specimens is its seeming guardian: An enormous, immature bald eagle frozen in full spread-wing ...

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 ...

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 ...