Collecting plant and animal specimens is essential for scientific studies and conservation and does not, as some critics of the practice have suggested, play a significant role in species extinctions.

Loren E. Babcock, in this compelling natural history focus, spotlights ethical collecting and highlights extraordinary examples from 19th-century museums ...

If not for a pair of Smithsonian scientists, the fingernail-size frog from Brazil would have likely gone extinct without ever being described Jack Tamisiea Museum scientists collected this frog ...

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.

A new "compassionate collection" proposal has gotten museum curators thinking about preservation methods. Museums house thousands of animal specimens that are ancient, extinct, newly discovered and ...

Universities and biodiversity institutes have hidden treasures: their collections of pressed plant specimens. These plants ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. GrrlScientist writes about evolution, ecology, behavior and health. This article is more than 8 years old. Century-old museum bird ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Specimen collection involves the capture and euthanasia of wildlife for scientific study. One camp of scientists holds that specimen collection is ...

Curatorial assistant Alifa Putri giving a tour to students during the public exhibition program of ‘125,660 Specimens of Natural History’ at Salihara (photo by Etienne Turpin) 125,660 Specimens of ...

The Specimen Collection Kits from Tri-Tech Forensics Inc. assure crime laboratory personnel that they will receive undamaged, properly collected, and clearly identifiable specimens for analysis. They ...

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 ...