Scientists have successfully analyzed Charles Darwin's original specimens from his HMS Beagle voyage (1831 to 1836) to the ...

The AMNH identifies 70 new species in 2025 after reviewing decades of collections, while their habitats disappear without ...

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 ...

For decades, scientists have been counting annual growth rings—similar to tree rings—inside fossilized leg bones of ...

S even naturally preserved mummified cheetahs have been discovered in a cave in Saudi Arabia. The contents of these caves, ...

The largest-ever study of how the “king of dinosaurs” grew shows a much longer, slower path to adulthood than scientists ...

This story is from The Pulse, a weekly health and science podcast. Find it on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. Scientists document the diversity of life by making specimens ...

Collecting plant and animal specimens is essential for scientific studies and conservation and does not, as some critics of the practice have suggested, play a significant role in species extinctions.

David Britton works for the Australian Museum. He has received funding from various government agencies to develop and curate collections held in the Museum, and to disseminate data from these ...

“It’s totally false . . . that “if you build it they will come.” I thought if we build this [biobank] we’ll have people knocking on our door to use it” (Interview with a biobank director, 2011). What ...

Luomus welcomes well-preserved and well-documented specimens to its collections. Luomus accepts well-preserved and well-documented specimens for accessioning into its scientific collections. We ...