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August 11, 2025

Can Artificial Intelligence (AI) Benefit Natural History Collections?

Or: How a Comment About iNaturalist Led Me Down an AI Rabbithole Rather than an exhaustive report, this blog is intended to give a brief overview of the topic and jumping off points for further investigation. This blog was written without the assistance of AI writing tools. While identifying a butterfly on a social media […]

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April 14, 2025

Did We Really “De-extinct” the Dire Wolf?

By Erin Cashion and David Dyer On April 7, the story in Time magazine was posted everywhere: we had brought the extinct Ice Age Dire Wolf, Aenocyon dirus, back from the dead. Alongside this unbelievable headline came the video of two adorable white, fluffy canines in the hands of a human caregiver. These two pups […]

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October 8, 2021

Restoring a Sense of Wonder

“I fell in love with every bird I met and everything they did. Their world, my world, was all new. I swooned to kinglets, warblers, tanagers...

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July 14, 2021

Celebrating World Snake Day 2021

World Snake Day 2021 is Friday, July 16! Want to learn more about these misunderstood animals?

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April 16, 2021

Understanding the Climate Crisis – Part I

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May 20, 2020

May 12 Coffee With a Curator: Follow-up Questions

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June 1, 2017

Ohio’s Secret Killers

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June 6, 2016

The Quabbin Island Rattlesnake Reintroduction Plan: What you need to know

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May 5, 2015

Leave Wildlife in the Wild!

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January 6, 2015

How do you turn a tortoise popsicle into a beautiful museum piece?