The Illinois Natural History Survey has been working to preserve historical specimens of organisms that originated in Illinois.

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 ...

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Only 2 percent of the California Academy of Sciences’ specimen are on display. The other 98 percent are in environmentally controlled storage. This is how they go from salvage to research specimen.

Luiz Rocha and biologists from 60 universities and other institutions have crafted a journal article claiming the collection of animal and plant samples does not lead to extinction. The letter was in ...

An unwillingness to acknowledge the role of specimens in scientific research is contributing to the deterioration of avian biodiversity collections and is hindering the thorough collecting that is so ...

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 ...

A child mummy is a part of the Burns Collection that is traveling with the Mummies of the World: The Exhibition. A child mummy is a part of the Burns Collection that is traveling with the Mummies of ...