Traditionally, collecting what scientists call a voucher specimen is considered the gold standard for documenting the presence of a species. "It's the ultimate evidence that you've found something ...

Collecting a specimen is often a first crucial step in determining diagnosis and the mode of treatment (Dougherty and Lister, 2004). In all aspects of specimen collection the process must be one that ...

The wealth of data hosted in natural history collections can contribute to finding a response to global challenges ranging from climate change to biodiversity loss to pandemics. However, today's ...

Collecting plant and animal specimens is essential for scientific studies and conservation and does not, as some critics of the practice have suggested, play a significant role in species extinctions.

“Collecting specimens is no longer required to describe a species or to document its rediscovery, ” asserted Minteer, especially in the case of rare or threatened species.

all the way into the collection room itself. The ornithology and mammalogy collection. is made up of 100,000 bird specimens, 32,000 mammal specimens, and 11,000 eggs and nests. Generally, our ...

Museum collections often rely on specimens donated by amateur (and sometimes famous) lepidopterists, like author Vladimir Nabokov, whose butterflies make up a chunk of the American Museum of ...

The collection, housed in Illick Hall (across the street from the Carrier Dome), boasts some 10,000 specimens of dead and well-preserved fish, reptiles, amphibians, birds and mammals.