Approximately 145 million: That's the number of specimens—including plants, animals, minerals, and human artifacts—curators ...

A naturally bright green stonefly has signalled full speed ahead for the Museum's digitisation project, as it releases its five millionth specimen online. As well as making the Museum's specimens ...

Historic museum specimens help us learn more about what a species once was like and what it could be like in the future. Erin Malsbury Scientists use a California condor specimen from 1835 — part of ...

In honor of Charles Darwin’s 215th birthday, meet the only original Darwin specimen in North America Naomi Greenberg This shorebird specimen in the museum’s Division of Birds was collected by Charles ...

This article was originally published on Undark. In a dusty room in central Florida, countless millipedes, centipedes, and other creepy-crawlies sit in specimen jars, rotting. The invertebrates are ...