Tag: Collections

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May 6, 2014

More thoughts on “(Re)extinction”

Thanks to Brad Lepper for bringing this article in the New Scientist to my attention. This is another opinion related to my recent blog about the debate concerning natural history museums collecting specimens. See this New Scientist article here.  Collecting of specimens for scientific research is an incredibly small percentage of the number of animals […]
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April 25, 2014

“Avoiding (Re)extinction” – Museums and the collecting of specimens
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February 10, 2014

OSU’s Museum of Biodiversity crawling with life!
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December 18, 2013

It’s a bird! It’s a bat! No, it’s a MOTH!
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December 2, 2013

It’s a turkey drumstick! Answer to Freak of the Week #7
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October 31, 2013

What’s “bugging” you this Fall!?
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October 23, 2013

Beautiful Fall Leaves…!?

Now that we've had our first light snowfall this morning and temperatures are dipping down to around freezing at night, leaves will start falling at a faster rate from the trees. So I thought it would be a good day to look at photos of some pretty fall leaves. But are they really leaves!? Look […]
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October 17, 2013

Another Use of the Natural History Collections

Written by Curator Emeritus Bob Glotzhober We have posted a few blogs over the past several months about how natural history collections can be useful, valuable and important in different peoples lives. I'm sure we have not fully exhausted the reasons, but let me briefly share this one. Last summer we got a request from […]
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October 16, 2013

Today is National Fossil Day!
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September 24, 2013

Even more uses of the Natural History Collections!