A living database reveals why the global count of mammal species keeps changing - and why accurate naming matters for ...

More than a billion biological specimens are thought to be stashed away in museums and universities and other places across the United States —everything from dead fish floating in glass jars to dried ...

Displayed in the National Museum of Natural History’s Deep Time Fossil Hall, the Allosaurus Fossil Is Now the Name-Bearing Specimen for the Entire Species Note to editors: Photos of the type specimen ...

Of all the things symbolic of life on the coast, seaweed is among the top. But the Smith Seaweed Ecology Lab at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla is looking to showcase ...

More than 120 million years ago in what is now modern Brazil, an ancient waterway was filled with all manner of strange creatures. These included dinosaurs, pterosaurs, sharks, bony fishes, a dizzying ...

From fish in jars to rare seeds and microbes, hundreds of millions of biological specimens are stored around the U.S., and caretakers are trying... Scientific Specimens Are Going Online, But Much ...