AI Reads Museum Labels and Pins Down Where Specimens Were Collected
A new evaluation of twelve AI models finds that large language models can georeference museum specimen labels with kilometre-scale accuracy, ...
Tag: biodiversity informatics
Perspective proposes Systems Entomology, demonstrated with an alpine beetle interaction network
A perspective combining systems thinking, Darwin Core and GBIF data proposes Systems Entomology, demonstrated with a limited network analysis of ...
Georgia Builds a Dynamic Checklist of Its Vascular Plants
A collaborative project is developing a continuously updateable checklist of Georgia’s vascular plants using taxonomic evidence, herbarium vouchers, regional occurrence ...
Sweden’s Velvet Ant Vaults: 216 Museum Specimens Map a Rare Wasp’s Hidden History
A new survey of Swedish natural history museums has catalogued 216 specimens of the velvet ant Mutilla europaea, some dating ...
A Single Letter Apart: How Similar Species Names Threaten Biodiversity Big Data
A large-scale analysis of marine species names reveals that nearly one in five epithets within the same genus differ by ...
Massive New Fish Atlas Maps Centuries of European Fish Records for Everyone
The German Ichthyological Society and partners have opened the GfI-Fischartenatlas, an openly accessible platform consolidating more than 62,000 validated fish ...
Species 2000 Closes After 28 Years, Handing Earth’s Species List to New Foundation
Species 2000, the UK organisation behind the Catalogue of Life, formally closed on 5 May 2026 after transferring all data ...
GBIF at 25: The Open Data Machine Behind Global Biodiversity Science
Twenty-five years ago, a handful of governments bet that the fastest route to saving life on Earth ran through something ...
AI Turns Museum Drawer Photos Into Instant Insect Inventories
An open-source AI pipeline converts whole-drawer photographs of historical insect collections into structured, machine-readable inventory data, achieving over 98 percent ...
From Data to Knowledge: A Crayfish Platform Redesigns Biodiversity Access
The World of Crayfish platform turns 124,318 expert-validated occurrence records into directly interpretable biogeographic knowledge through a deliberately minimal web ...
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Mothers who receive childcare support from maternal grandparents show more parental warmth, finds NTU Singapore study
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University of Seville Breaks 120-Year-Old Mystery, Revises a Key Einstein Concept
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Bee body mass, pathogens and local climate influence heat tolerance
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Researchers record first-ever images and data of a shark experiencing a boat strike
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Groundbreaking Clinical Trial Reveals Lubiprostone Enhances Kidney Function
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