HAVING lain deep in the vaults of the National Herbarium of NSW unidentified for more than 40 years, an aged specimen found ...

To plan for the future, it's sometimes necessary to look to the past. To improve natural history collection and analysis in ...

Gwil arrived at Kew in October 1974, not as a trained taxonomist but as a keen gardener, with a degree in botany and fresh ...

Secret doors, smoke plumes, air locks, a million species and shipwrecked treasures: this world-renowned Sydney establishment could be the most biodiverse spot in the country.

Subsequently, the spider host was identified as the orb-weaving cave spider, Metellina merianae (Tetragnathidae: Araneae), and—through the help of a local speleologist—further specimens of the ...

By Abhishyant Kidangoor How can dried plant specimens protect a rainforest? In myriad ways. Kept in collections known as herbariums, they store critical data on the physical characteristics, or ...

He added the goal of the project is to “speed up the identification of species to make sure that they don’t go extinct.” In addition to visual scans of the specimens in the herbarium ...

The REAL ID requirement was supposed to go into effect years ago. Planning to travel by air in the U.S. later this year? A regular driver's license may not cut it. Travelers flying through U.S ...