Researchers at the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, together with data scientists, have developed a new method to largely ...

Antique insect collections became exceedingly popular in the 1800s and early 1900s. They were often built as working ...

Deep in the bowels of the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology at the University of California at Berkeley sits a large cabinet many people would rather not open. You smell it before you see it: an odor so ...

Eudicella, a genus in the scarab beetle family, is part of a group known as flower beetles. This specimen was collected in what used to be known as the Gold Coast region of West Africa. This ...

The small collection of dry-mounted caterpillars held in The Albert J. Cook Arthropod Research Collection at Michigan State University would have emerged as butterflies decades before the first ...

“What we did not know is that Livingstone’s expedition collected proper scientific specimens of beetles, and that these had survived,” says Barclay. Before the box was discovered, curators knew of ...

A brightly colored beetle collected by Charles Darwin more than 180 years ago has been identified as a new species after hiding in museum storage for decades. The discovery of Darwinilus sedarisi — ...

Entomologists at an insect collection in country New South Wales have a party trick they like to play. Visitors are given a pair of 3D glasses and asked to first close one eye and then the other while ...

FAIRBANKS, Alaska – Beneath the lids of large coolers, thousands of tiny bugs devour the desiccated flesh of mammal carcasses destined for the vast specimens collection at the University of Alaska's ...

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In the Natural History Museum in London, approximately 10 million specimens make up their collection of Coleoptera — the taxonomic order that includes all beetle species. About 2,000 to 3,000 new ...