The basement floor archive and laboratories now house 1.5 million specimens of ancient life in San Diego County ...

Across the world, natural history museums hold about 3 billion specimens of plants and animals in collections—and these ...

SINGAPORE: The Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum (LKCNHM) may soon need to expand amid a growing collection and rising visitor numbers. However, there are no plans to move from the current ...

For more than 100,000 years, coastal communities have harvested abalone (genus Haliotis). These gastropods, which are found ...

The Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum (LKCNHM), established in 2015, houses artefacts such as animal, plant, mineral and fossil specimens collected over two centuries. It also serves as a hub ...

Ancient DNA was extracted from the older specimens, some of which we care for at the Natural History Museum in London and were collected before the most recent species decline began towards the end of ...

The six-legged staffers of the American Museum of Natural History’s Bug Colony do their ... beetles toil around the clock handling a task of specimen preparation that even the museum’s best ...

Visitor numbers hit a record high of 88,000 last year. The seven-storey museum is home to over a million natural history specimens. Mr Martyn Low, biodiversity histories lead at the LKCNHM ...

Photo: Sibongiseni Maphumulo As we celebrate International Museum Day today, May 18, we take look at the wonders that reside within the glass cabinets and jars ... natural world and the rich ...

The Museum of Natural History was founded in 1956, though the university began collecting and storing artifacts and specimens as early as 1837. Then called the Exhibit Museum, it was officially ...