Natural history museums contain an astonishing snapshot of the planet's biodiversity. Using this information to better ...

Miniature Japanese sculptures, called netsuke, from the museum’s anthropology archives available for the public to see at the new exhibit. The Carnegie Museum of Natural History opened an exhibit Nov.

Museums are strange things, Jack Ashby, assistant director of the University Museum of Zoology in Cambridge, UK, points out in his new book, Nature’s Memory: Behind the scenes at the world’s natural ...