Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. I've visited the Field Museum for 21 years and finally got to tour one of its hidden collections. Researchers preserve and store ...

New research has shed light on a mysterious and ancient fish, one that remains one of the world's rarest -- the Coelacanth. Researchers have removed Denmark's only specimen of this primordial fish ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On a weekday morning in December, Eric Hilton reached down to a table covered in piscine paraphernalia: fish skeletons, piles of ...

What has at least 1,800 teeth, a snout like a duck, a suction cup on its belly, and has only ever been seen in a couple of old museum specimen jars? The clingfish family’s newest member. Nettorhamphos ...

To prove that fish ingestion of microplastics is more than just an ocean story and more than just a modern story, Loren Hou used an unusual technique. Transporting the digestive tracts of four ...

Replica Victorian specimen jars from the Natural History Museum, London. Do they contain specimens of corsets, bedpans and suppressed emotions? They're empty, but are being launched to celebrate the ...

Scientists have used a laser technique to analyze Charles Darwin’s original Galápagos specimens without opening their nearly 200-year-old jars. By shining light through the glass, the method reveals ...

The Royal D. Suttkus Fish Collection is stored inside World War II-era ammunition bunkers in Belle Chasse, Louisiana. Video: ...

You might think the New Brunswick Museum has plenty of fish. It boasts an entire room stuffed wall-to-wall with them, hundreds of jars of preserved fish, including every freshwater species found in ...

On a weekday morning in December, Eric Hilton reached down to a table covered in piscine paraphernalia: fish skeletons, piles of fish bones, colorfully dyed fish sitting in small, clear tubs of liquid ...