Bog Beetle, Misidentified For 85 Years, Is 'Discovered' At Cornell
...arts of the world. Through study of specimens from museums in the northeastern United States and Canada, Will and Liebherr have found that this beetle's natural range extends from Maine to Ohio and Ontario to Maryland. The earliest collected specimen found so far belongs to the American Museum of Natural Hi...UC Geologist "Flip-Flops" On Understanding Of Crinoid Life Style
...of comparing Uintacrinus slabs from fieldsites and museums around the world. Meyer flipped his thinkingaround once more. The determining factor was an odd patternrevealed in the fossilized slabs. Fossils swept by river currentsor tides generally get preserved pointing in a single direction.The Uintacrinus fo...Yes Virginia, Plants Are Alive!
...tive, hands-on, knees-on, and minds-on interactive museums ofnature right in the middle of one of the largest metropolitan areas in theworld. The Everett Children's Adventure Garden, a12-acre indoor and outdoor wonderland with 40 activities for visitors toinvestigate plants and follow in the footsteps of sc...From Germany To The Wild West: Geologists Hunt For Evidence Of Ancient Crinoid
...eyer's trip to Germany. There, he visited several museums and field sites toget detailed records of the exact alignment of the Uintacrinus fossils. Thespoke pattern was evident on some, but not all of the slabs. Meyer then returned to the United States in search of new fossil evidence inKansas and Colorado...Managing For Deer, Moose, Elk, Wolves -- And People
...e flora and fauna, theparks many seem to many like museums of nature. And to the general public, theNPS staff may seem like a team of curators, charged with preserving a view ofwhat our country looked like before the arrival of Europeans. But the true role of the NPS is much more complicated and much less...World's biodiversity becoming extinct at levels rivaling Earth's past 'mass extinctions'
...hroughout the world bothby strengthening the major museums and other institutions that have holdings ofspecimens and literature on plants and by capacity building in developingcountries with scarce resources. Currently, 80 percent of the world's scientistslive in industrialized countries, which have about 20...... the field of art preservation and authentication, museums such as the J.Paul Getty Museum and its Restoration Unit have used it to examine the Dead Seascrolls and study cross-sections of paint on Dutch masterpieces; likewise,layers of wood in a priceless desk were analyzed and authentically restored Materi...Field Museum plays vital role in creation of huge new park
... diversity worldwide, our mission is to direct the museums unique resources worldwide collections, scientific expertise and innovative educational programs to the immediate needs of conservation at local, national and international levels." In order to continue such efforts, The Field Museum plans to buil...Making science museums more dynamic, beneficial
Are science and natural history museums warehouses filled with insignificant artifacts, or...ural institutions as they discuss new ways to make museums more relevant and beneficial to society. WHO: - Jose Sarukhan, Mexicos Commissioner for Human Devel...Penn paleontologists locate a new genus of colossal dinosaur along an ancient coastline
... World War II, when earlier finds stored in German museums were blasted from existence by Allied warplanes. In the June 1 issue of Science, the Penn team reports on its discovery of Paralititan stromeri, one of the most massive animals ever to walk the earth, and presents evidence that the quadruped walked ...Web key helps researchers identify mammals
...entist has come up with a novel way of putting the museums enormous collection of artifacts and specimens to use around the world. With more than 21 million items, The Field Museums collection is an ideal place for researchers to identify various faunas from many countries or regions. For example, the muse...Museums must play a bigger role in conservation
...st role CHICAGO When it comes to conservation, museums must stop being wallflowers, say Field Museum expe...citing major environmental achievements of several museums around the world. When science informs conservation, the results can be dramatic. Traditionally, nat...X-ray analysis of shipwreck may help conservators save waterlogged artifacts
...cal artifacts that are on display or in storage in museums all around the world - that is, the destruction of the wood by way of sulfuric acid produced when sulfur embedded in the wood is oxidized in air," says SSRL chemist Patrick Frank. "Museum curators world-wide will have to pay attention to the threat r...Purdue to help NASA create life-supporting ecosystem in space
...children, teachers, college students, industry and museums to increase the public's knowledge about science and space exploration. The outreach effort will include developing materials and programs for lessons in the public schools....New process by Temple grad student can place loose fossils back into the strata or determine fakes
...bones for fossil provenience from universities and museums in Arizona, Montana, Oregon, South Dakota, Utah, and Wyoming. Its important to know where in the earths strata these fossils came from, says Patrick, who will receive her masters degree in May. Otherwise, its just a bone sitting in a museum. Patri......xican species held in more than 40 natural history museums around the world. With advanced information technology to help manage information on species occurrences from far flung museums, the researchers are finding that the "whole is greater than the sum of the parts" and they are able to extract far more i...Max-Planck doctoral student discovers 'living fossils'
... Adis sent photographs of the two animals found in museums to scientists and museums around the world, with the request for searches in collections for further material. Dr. Eugne Marai...Field Museum plays key role in massive project to map Tree of Life
...s of the group." Partners include several American museums and universities (American Museum of Natural History, The Field Museum, George Washington University and Smithsonian National Natural History Museum and others), as well as institutions in Denmark, Spain and Argentina. 3. Archosaur Phylogeny ($2 mill...AAAS Science Project/Unisys prize encourages student-led scientific inquiry on flight to soar
...out the country, the students will team with local museums to compete for the $10,000 Unisys Prize for Online...e city's birds and endangered wetlands. The ten museums selected to partner with local kids to participate in the 2002/2003 AAAS national science project an...UC Riverside study suggests placentas can evolve in 750,000 years or less
...around Latin America collecting the fish, going to museums to work with their collections, and then doing the appropriate dissections at UC Riverside. Several UC Riverside undergraduate students contributed to the dissections. Reznick also worked on live fish in his laboratory on campus. The molecular work...