The thing about insects is that there are a whole lot of them. Not just around the planet, where they account for about 90 percent of life forms, but also at the National Museum of Natural History’s ...

This article originally appeared on Undark. In a dusty room in central Florida, countless millipedes, centipedes, and other creepy-crawlies sit in specimen jars, rotting. The invertebrates are part of ...

Even at museums, bugs are hard to keep track of. In a report released last month, Denver Auditor Timothy O’Brien found that the Denver Museum of Nature & Science doesn’t have a method in place to keep ...

CHICAGO (CBS) --You've heard of lions and tigers and bears, but what about bugs and bones and snakes? CBS News Chicago's Marie Saavedra was very brave, taking a tour of the collections visitors don't ...

Inside the natural history museums of the world are billions of animal and plant specimens from birds, fish and beetles to flowers, mushrooms and grasses, all stacked, stored and preserved in jars and ...

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Natural history museums have joined forces to produce a global digital inventory of their prized collections, from pinned butterflies to dinosaur skulls. By Carl Zimmer Carl Zimmer’s science reporting ...