In London, the Natural History Museum released its 2025 list of newly described species, formally adding 262 plants and ...

Big Bee Bonanza is seeking Virtual Volunteers! Interested in supporting bee research and conservation? You can BEE part of science by becoming a community volunteer and transcribing specimen labels: ...

A well-curated collection of local grasshoppers is useful for identification and display. Insect taxonomists often identify species by comparing unknown specimens with identified museum specimens.

There are more than 1,000 natural history museums around the world, each tasked with studying and preserving a portion of our planet’s natural and cultural heritage. Notes From Nature is an online ...

Scientists are using cutting-edge artificial intelligence to help extract complex information from large collections of museum specimens. Scientists are using cutting-edge artificial intelligence to ...

Digitization is a crucially important part of every natural history museum’s work these days. Not only do museums house tens of thousands of specimens, but they are striving every day to turn those ...

If you have a computer and some spare time at home, you can help move research forward this Thursday, April 16 through Sunday, April 19, by participating in WeDigBio Lite, a virtual citizen science ...

While checking museum records, Dr Robert Mesibov found there were occasional errors in the dates and places for specimens he had collected many years before. He was not surprised. "It's easy to make ...