Three million insects and a half a million dried plants, fungi and lichen specimens encased more than 450 visitors at Ohio State’s Museum of Biological Diversity this past weekend as the museum opened ...

Even at museums, bugs are hard to keep track of. In a report released last month, Denver Auditor Timothy O’Brien found that the Denver Museum of Nature & Science doesn’t have a method in place to keep ...

The Natural History Museum in London has a gargantuan task ahead: the mass digitization of its sprawling collections. Over the next five years, the museum plans to scan more than 20 million pinned ...

The display will be featured in a new exhibition at the National Gallery of Art as part of a historic collaboration along the National Mall Jack Tamisiea Collection manager Floyd Shockley used ...

Last fall, the Yale Peabody Museum had a surplus of cigar boxes — dozens of them. It’s not that folks there were lighting up stogies left and right, though. The boxes had served a scientific purpose: ...

Who said scientists are not creative? Biologists have proved such statements wrong with the invention of a creative, functional and most importantly quite cheap pinned insect manipulator made entirely ...

Insects: Microsculptures Magnified allows visitors to examine colours, textures and anatomical structures that often remain invisible. SINGAPORE – Perched on foliage, a darkling beetle can easily go ...

If not for a pair of Smithsonian scientists, the fingernail-size frog from Brazil would have likely gone extinct without ever ...

Jennifer Angus uses her bare fingers to delicately remove a pin holding down the thorax of a large, green insect affixed to a foam board she had used to transport its body. She must be careful: the ...

ATLANTA, Ga. - Beetles, bees, and wasps. Let’s be honest; for many of us, these words don’t exactly conjure up feelings of goodwill. But look a little closer (well, maybe not too closely, depending on ...

More than a century ago, students and faculty at the University of Iowa collected insects from around Iowa and as far away as Fiji. Pinned on cards with tiny labels, more than 40,000 of those insects ...