Preserving DNA in biological samples has long posed a challenge for researchers, but the process may be about to get a lot easier. Researchers and students at Northeastern's Ocean Genome Legacy Center ...

Research teams have developed a new approach to identifying the chemical composition of preservation fluids in historic jars without opening them. The teams were from the Science and Technology ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The specimens that Charles Darwin brought back from his journey on the HMS Beagle are still preserved in liquid in the archives of London’s Natural ...

Jocelyn P. Colella is an Assistant Professor of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology and Assistant Curator of Mammals, University of Kansas. Bryan McLean is an Assistant Professor of Biology, University of ...

Scientists have successfully analyzed Charles Darwin's original specimens from his HMS Beagle voyage (1831 to 1836) to the Galapagos Islands. Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech news ...

The animal collections housed at zoos and natural history museums -- living specimens in the first case, preserved in the other -- constitute an exhaustive trove of information about Earth's ...

As the climate crisis threatens millions of species worldwide, biodiversity conservation is now an all-hands-on-deck operation. Natural history collections play a critical role in this effort as ...

Now, imagine if those specimens were never collected. There’s a variety of reasons that specimens don’t get saved, including insufficient museum-based training among newer generations of scientists, ...