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 ...

ALEXANDRIA, Minn.-All charges of animal cruelty have been dropped against Bio Corporation, an company here that provides specimens for dissection in classrooms. On April 18, the Alexandria City ...

When museums acquire mammal specimens, they do more than stuff the creatures and arrange them in display cases. Mammalogists also record when and where the animals were found, what climates they ...

On the fourth floor of Noland hall, a fully articulated chimpanzee skeleton and taxidermy wolf block the whiteboard in a discussion room. Cabinets line the walls, and inside researchers can find ...

In a quiet corner of London, a set of cloudy glass jars collected by Charles Darwin has become the focus of a very modern ...

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 podcast for curious kids (and adults) about a collection of spectacular specimens and the stories they can tell us about life on Earth. Join Brandi and Paige as they open drawers, cabinets, and ...

Frog entrails, lizard scales and mouse tails, oh my. These creatures are among more than 13,000 museum specimens that had their innards CT scanned as part of a six-year mission to create 3-D digital ...

What do you do with more than 130 arsenic-tinged taxidermied animals with significant historical and academic value, languishing in a now-closed museum that may or may not be a public health hazard?

Arizona biorepositories preserve plant and animal specimens for scientific research. Researchers use these collections to track environmental changes, including climate change effects and genetic ...

When museums acquire mammal specimens, they do more than stuff the creatures and arrange them in display cases. Mammalogists also record when and where the animals were found, what climates they ...