Type Specimens: What are they and why are they important?
City Nature Challenge: Noticing Invasive Plants
Remembering Albert Kollar, Collection Manger of Invertebrate Paleontology
Snags, Logs, and the Importance of a Fallen Tree
Celebrating Women in the Natural History Art Collection
When Nature Meets Art: Crinoid Fossils as Cultural Beads
Scientific Names Matter in March Mammal Madness
World Pangolin Day 2024 – The Mysterious Mammalian “Wishbone”
A Year in Review: Bird Banding 2023
The Hermit Crab and the Moon Snail
Groundhog Day 2024: Punxsutawney Phil’s Alpine Cousin
2023 Rector Christmas Bird Count Results
Collected On This Day: Witch Hazel, January 1923
Oysters Swim Towards a Siren Soundscape
Happy Retirement, Pat McShea!
A Three Rivers Waterkeeper Biocube
Birds in “Twelve Days of Christmas”: a Museum Search
What’s in a Name? Japanese Knotweed or Itadori
Art and the Animal
Tribal Museums Day and Promoting Indigenous Authors
A Tree Pittsburgh Biocube
Turtle-Centered Learning
Museum Connections to a College Lab
Hispanic Heritage Month Scavenger Hunt: Three Birds and a Butterfly
Celebrating Indigenous Peoples’ Day 2023
2023 Point Counts at Powdermill Avian Research Center
We Get Questions: Climate Change, Hope, and Action
Do No Harm: Dealing with Spotted Lanternflies
A Summer Internship at Powdermill
The Nose that “Sees”
Hummingbird Lessons
Staff Favorites: Dolls in the Museum’s Care
Tracking Migratory Flight in the Northeast
Ruffed Grouse or Scarlet Tanager: Debating the Pennsylvania State Bird
From Collections User To Collections Manager
Wolverine: Status Check For a Tournament Champion
Collected On This Day: White Trillium from May 28, 1993
Bringing A Little O-Gah-Pah to Pittsburgh
Can’t Choose Just One: Asking an Entomologist to Name Their Favorite Native Species
New Vision of Old Rock Art
Building Birding Skills
March Mammal Madness 2023: Learn and Win
World Pangolin Day 2023 – The Mysterious Brain Bone
Echoes of Freedom in an Owl’s Call
Beyond the Simple Ecosystem Graphic: Teaching About Biodiversity and Pollination
Groundhog Day 2023
2022 Rector Christmas Bird Count Results
Stepping Back in Time
A New Building at Powdermill
A Bit of Presque Isle, Erie, PA in the Hall of Botany
What Does Pittsburgh Have in Common with Mount Vesuvius?
Shark-ish Beasts Versus Cephalopods: Which is Predator, Which is Prey, and is One an Artist?
The Vine That Ate Pittsburgh? Not yet.
Feather and Bone Connections to American History
An Intern’s Experience Studying the Ecosystem at Powdermill
Celebrating Indigenous Peoples’ Day 2022
How to Hunt for Microbes
Two Perspectives on Attending a Course on Moths and Butterflies in the Southwest
An Intern’s Point of View
Encounter With an Orb Weaver Spider: Is It Predator or Prey?