With over 20 years of experience, marine biologist Cao Van Nguyen has built an invaluable collection of sea snake specimens to support research and conservation efforts.

23. What mode(s) of preservation is this (pay attention to the holes!)? What kind(s) of organisms are fossilized here? 24. These are fossils of the same kind of organism, a crinoid. Crinoids are very ...

The four-metre-long billfish was of significant interest to scientists at the Museum, who collected and froze it for permanent preservation. The Museum's spirit collection houses millions of specimens ...

The polar regions of the moon contain permanently shadowed craters that can reach temperatures as low as -410 degrees Fahrenheit (-246 degrees Celsius), ideal for preserving specimens. Along with ...

Archaeologists Baffled after Discovering Gigantic Skull of a 200-million-year-Old Dinosaur, Say it is a Never-Before-Seen Species In a groundbreaking discovery that has left archaeologists astounded, ...

The Museum has over 23 million specimens stored in alcohol in the spirit collection. Preserving specimens in alcohol is not a new technique. The Museum's earliest wet collections date from the early ...

The technique could potentially also be used as a proxy for screening ancient bone specimens for DNA and protein sequence ...