Antique insect collections became exceedingly popular in the 1800s and early 1900s. They were often built as working ...
It may sound harsh, but a natural history collection in a museum is almost worthless if it is not properly catalogued. Anyone who has spent even a short amount of time in a natural history collection ...
If not for a pair of Smithsonian scientists, the fingernail-size frog from Brazil would have likely gone extinct without ever being described ...
The AMNH identifies 70 new species in 2025 after reviewing decades of collections, while their habitats disappear without ...
A new study out of Oxford University suggests that as many as half of natural history specimens in collections around the world may be mislabeled. That alarming — if not alarmist — finding was arrived ...
The Natural History Museum is pretty sure that the dinosaur in the Hintze Hall is a diplodocus, but how many other specimens are accurate? Credit: Photo: ALAMY Museums might seem like infallible hubs ...