If not for a pair of Smithsonian scientists, the fingernail-size frog from Brazil would have likely gone extinct without ever being described Jack Tamisiea Museum scientists collected this frog ...

The wealth of data hosted in natural history collections can contribute to finding a response to global challenges ranging from climate change to biodiversity loss to pandemics. However, today's ...

Now, imagine if those specimens were never collected. There’s a variety of reasons that specimens don’t get saved, including insufficient museum-based training among newer generations of scientists, ...