The Illinois Natural History Survey has been working to preserve historical specimens of organisms that originated in ...

Tyler Irvin, president of the UTA Herpetology Club, shows a student a jar of preserved rattlesnakes Feb. 6 during “A Night at ...

I've visited the Field Museum for 21 years and finally got to tour one of its hidden collections. Researchers preserve and store 11 million wet specimens in the basement. Here are some of the most ...

The titan beetle (Titanus giganteus) may just be the insect equivalent of a giant, flawless diamond. The species has a ...

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 ...

This fall, the University of Michigan Museum of Zoology received a ‘hiss-toric’ delivery: approximately 30,000 jarred snake specimens from Oregon State University for research purposes. The new ...

Recommendations for specimen collection and handling have been developed for adoption across breast cancer clinical trials conducted by the Breast International Group (BIG)-sponsored Groups and the ...

Scientists at the Natural History Museum have pioneered a groundbreaking laser technique capable of determining what preservation fluids are contained within specimen jars without ever unsealing them.