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Displayed in the National Museum of Natural History’s Deep Time Fossil Hall, the Allosaurus Fossil Is Now the Name-Bearing Specimen for the Entire Species Note to editors: Photos of the type specimen ...
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 ...
In a quiet corner of London, a set of cloudy glass jars collected by Charles Darwin has become the focus of a very modern ...
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