Posts Tagged ‘collections’

What Lives Where

Wednesday, June 26th, 2013
collections, museums, biodiversity, informatics, ecosystems, conservation, scientific research

The Academy’s Stan Blum works in Biodiversity Informatics– he documents what lives where.

Collections Stories: Avian Pox

Thursday, January 13th, 2011
AvianPox

Researchers, using the Academy’s collections, have discovered when avian pox arrived on the Galapagos Islands.

Describing Earth’s Species

Monday, November 22nd, 2010
treegrow

A group of scientists is proposing to identify and describe all the Earth’s species in the next 50 years. Why? Is it possible?

Flesh Eating Beetles!

Thursday, October 21st, 2010
Human_Skull_being_cleaning_by_Dermestid_Beetles

Get the gory low-down of flesh-eating beetles and find out how they are put to work in natural history museums.

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