#animalspecimens — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #animalspecimens, aggregated by home.social.
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NOLA: There are 8 million fish in a World War II bunker outside New Orleans. More arrive soon.. “Downriver from New Orleans, behind heavy doors in grass-covered bunkers that stored artillery during World War II, are millions of dead fish. They’re preserved and cataloged in rows of glass jars, each one a time capsule, a specimen pulled from a particular place on a particular day, labeled so […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/01/06/nola-there-are-8-million-fish-in-a-world-war-ii-bunker-outside-new-orleans-more-arrive-soon/ -
The Conversation: Scanning Australia’s bones. “It helps researchers from all around the world study rare and extinct species remotely, compare skeletal features across a wide range of Australian vertebrates, and conduct detailed analyses without physically handling fragile specimens. But it isn’t just researchers who will benefit from Ozboneviz. Whether you’re a student, teacher, artist […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/11/the-conversation-scanning-australias-bones/
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University of Guelph: World’s Largest DNA Library Collects 15 Millionth Specimen. “A tiny beetle from Costa Rica has just made scientific history, becoming the 15 millionth specimen in an archive that underpins an effort to build a genetic reference library cataloguing all life on Earth. That library lives at the Centre for Biodiversity Genomics (CBG) at the University of Guelph, which has […]
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University of Georgia: Museum collections reveal worldwide spread of butterfly disease. “Butterfly collections are a common sight in museums, their brightly colored wings and unique patterns drawing the eyes of visitors. While these pinned specimens on display are stunning on their own, a new study from the University of Georgia explored how museum specimens can be used to track the spread of […]
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The Harvard Crimson: It Could Take Lifetimes To Catalog the Harvard Zoology Museum’s Collections Online. AI Tools Might Help.. “The Museum of Comparative Zoology holds more than 21 million specimens from its more than 150-year history, which could take lifetimes to manually add to digital catalogs, but some museum researchers hope artificial intelligence tools could speed up the process.”