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When lifestyles or forms evolve multiple times, we often think they must have some benefit. For example, flying creatures evolved at least …

Collected on this Day in 1940 This specimen was collected on May 29, 1940 by Leroy Henry along Pine Creek, north of …

The month of May that we’re living in is very different from the one we all anticipated at the start of the …

New to this series? Read The Bromacker Fossil Project Part I and Part II. Most of the important fossil discoveries from the Bromacker …

“What do I plant?” you may be wondering as spring starts to set in. Maybe you are a master gardener, or maybe …

Transforming my ultra-tiny backyard into a garden has been a kind of mental, physical, and spiritual therapy for me during this COVID-19 …

New to this series? Read The Bromacker Fossil Project Part 1 here. Finding fossils at the Bromacker quarry was tedious and physically …

Figure 1. When museum patrons enter Carnegie Museum of Natural History’s Benedum Hall of Geology, they encounter a one-ton block of coarse …

Welcome to April! Have you seen any flowers blooming yet? Often, when we think of flowers, we also think of their pollinating …

Spring is just around the corner, even if it doesn’t feel like it the last few days.  In the Laurel Highlands, the …

Part of Anthropocene science is earth system science, the study of anthropogenic change of whole earth systems–the water systems, geological systems, ecosystems, …

“A picture tells 1,000 words.” Specimen imaging is a method of documenting specimens in the Invertebrate Zoology collection for research as well …

The Anthropocene translates roughly to “human” “times” and it is the proposed current geological period that started when the activities of human …

Figure 1:  Accession #6163, Donated By Major J.P. Young What could have inspired someone to arrive at the Carnegie Institute, on a …

Figure 1: CM 5881 Trilobite (Isotelus maximus) with “smoke”                     Figure 2: Same …