Daniel McDonald and Jack Gilbert (both University of California, San Diego; CA, USA) discuss the challenges faced during fecal sample collection and highlight important factors to consider when ...

Ron Giegerich pulled out a drawer full of dead bluebirds. “These are great skins. Some are more than 100 years old and still intact,” he said. Giegerich, is an instructional support specialist at SUNY ...

Thousands of preserved bug specimens from around the world have made their way to UMass Lowell to help enhance the study of insects. Biological Sciences Asst. Prof. Christina Kwapich is the new ...

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 ...

CARBONDALE — The first thing to strike a visitor to the anteroom housing SIU’s massive collection of bird specimens is its seeming guardian: An enormous, immature bald eagle frozen in full spread-wing ...

For centuries, the Illinois Natural History Survey has worked to catalog and preserve the organisms that make up Illinois. The INHS maintains its mission to research the history and diversity of ...

The University of Michigan is making "hiss"-tory, with the recent addition of thousands of creepy crawlers to the extensive research collection in the Museum of Zoology. And for goodness "snake," over ...

In their ongoing research, TTUHSC’s Samuel Prien, Ph.D., and Lindsay Penrose, Ph.D., completed a study that provided preliminary results of their newest collection technology system design for a ...