If not for a pair of Smithsonian scientists, the fingernail-size frog from Brazil would have likely gone extinct without ever being described ...

This article was originally published on Undark. In a dusty room in central Florida, countless millipedes, centipedes, and other creepy-crawlies sit in specimen jars, rotting. The invertebrates are ...

More than 150 million specimens that belong to the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History are housed at a support ...

This article originally appeared on Undark. In a dusty room in central Florida, countless millipedes, centipedes, and other creepy-crawlies sit in specimen jars, rotting. The invertebrates are part of ...

Thanks to cutting-edge technology, Smithsonian scientists provide worldwide access to some of the museum’s most delicate specimens Raven Capone Benko The National Museum of Natural History safeguards ...

MISSOULA, Mont. — The Philip L. Wright Zoological Museum on the University of Montana's campus features over 22,000 intact specimens. The museum's collection, gathered over the course of its 126-year ...

The University of Michigan is making "hiss"-tory, with the recent addition of thousands of creepy crawlers to the extensive research collection in the Museum of Zoology. And for goodness "snake," over ...

MISSOULA, Mont. — It's a low-key museum that doesn't get a lot of public attention. It's possible you may never have heard of it. But the Philip L. Wright Zoological Museum at the University of ...