When the UA’s bird collection was started in 1884, curator Herbert Brown was tasked with cataloging the hundreds of nest, bird and egg specimens he collected by hand, and the only way to see those ...
IOWA CITY - Want to check out a book about meadowlarks? How about a specimen of an actual meadowlark? The University of Iowa Museum of Natural History would be the place to go. And officials there ...
It doesn’t get top billing at the North Museum of Nature and Science in Lancaster. But venture into the basement and behold a world-class bird collection whose origins are full of intrigue and ...
Travelers headed out of Gates C and D from the Philadelphia International Airport have a chance to see a sample of one of the 10 largest bird collections in the world. The Academy Takes Flight ...
Examples of Waldrop's bird and egg collection seen during the search warrant. Two men were sentenced by a federal judge in Brooklyn on Wednesday for their role in trafficking hundreds of federally ...
When Nathan Leopold went to prison in 1924 he left behind a vast, unusual collection. In all the attempts to dissect the Leopold and Loeb story, one mystery remains unsolved: What happened to the vast ...
The regular Wednesday Field Museum volunteers, plus 15 or so others, are a large part of why the Chicago museum boasts the fourth-largest bird specimen collection in the world, says Ben Marks, ...