Scientists have used a laser technique to analyze Charles Darwin’s original Galápagos specimens without opening their nearly ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. many specimen jars filled with clear brownish fluids and different animals fill the shelves at london's natural history museum.

The specimens that Charles Darwin brought back from his journey on the HMS Beagle are still preserved in liquid in the ...

What if humanity's backup was on the moon? Well, that may just be the plan. Scientists want to create a repository on the moon to preserve biological material from Earth. Lunar temperatures and the ...

Museum samples from the USS Albatross. (Photo by John Whalen, Old Dominion University) At this year’s annual meeting of the Ecological Society of America in Baltimore, almost two dozen students and ...

The Field Museum in Chicago just unveiled a new specimen of one of the most important fossils ever: Archaeopteryx. It lived around 150 million years ago, and this species is famous for marking the ...

Beneath the public galleries of the University of Alaska Museum of the North (UAMN) lies a unique library of life. This library doesn’t lend books or manuscripts; instead, it loans frozen biological ...