Tag: museum collections

Scientists show that gravid freshwater mussels preserved in museum collections carry overlooked larvae that can resolve taxonomy and aid conservation.

A newly published second addition to the Hamburg herpetological type catalogue documents 53 additional type specimens, designates three new lectotypes, ...

Rediscovered type specimens of the endangered Crimean shemaya Alburnus mentoides have been identified in Vienna collections, allowing designation of a ...

Researchers at the Museum of Nature Hamburg have published the first annotated type catalogue and complete digital record of the ...

A virtual 3D reconstruction of a fragmented skull at a German museum has corrected a decades-old misidentification, revealing a specimen ...

Five newly recognized species of minute fossil sea snails from the Middle Miocene Central Paratethys Sea reveal that the ancient ...

Researchers report the first wild record of a praying mantis eating a snail and map the distributions of Polyspilota mantids ...

In the spring of 1942, while Nazi Germany's war machine was grinding across Europe, a small group of botanists and ...

An open-source AI pipeline converts whole-drawer photographs of historical insect collections into structured, machine-readable inventory data, achieving over 98 percent ...

A two-decade experiment at the Natural History Museum in London reveals that gum-chloral slide mounting media deteriorate through multiple overlapping ...