China's Tianwen-2 mission has now officially reached Kamooalewa, a "quasi-satellite" of Earth that generally sits a few tens ...

The ongoing effort captures high-quality images and collection data in seconds, creating an online database of bees, beetles, butterflies and flies ...

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.

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 ...

Luiz Rocha and biologists from 60 universities and other institutions have crafted a journal article claiming the collection of animal and plant samples does not lead to extinction. The letter was in ...

ANN ARBOR—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 ...

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 ...

In 1912, a group of intrepid explorers led by Rollo and Ida Beck, widely acknowledged to be the foremost marine bird collectors of their time, embarked on a most remarkable effort to catalogue South ...

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 ...

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.