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 ...

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 ...

If you’ve ever wondered where all the items in a Smithsonian museum that aren’t actively being displayed to the public end up, look no further than this massive, secure facility, sitting just outside ...

This year, NMNH director Kirk Johnson helped spearhead an effort to add up the collections of the world’s largest museums Jack Tamisiea A small fraction of the more than 50 million specimens housed in ...

Several Miami University students have been helping clean and prepare for display this fall semester several newly acquired specimens, including a polar bear, that were gifted to the Hefner Museum of ...

Researchers discovered that a poison frog species described decades ago was based on a mix-up involving the wrong museum specimen. The frog tied to the official species name turned out to be brown, ...