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Vial after vial, and label after label, Sofia Barretto Thomas dedicated her time and careful eye to sorting the thousands of amphipods donated by the late cave biologist John R. Holsinger
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A new online resource combines data from 45 different natural history collections to provide easy-to-use information on America’s threatened freshwater mussels
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Join the National Museum of Natural History for programs on asteroid samples, fossils and chimpanzees
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Indigenous woolly dogs, ground sloth pendants and more headline-grabbing findings by scientists at the National Museum of Natural History
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This year, NMNH director Kirk Johnson helped spearhead an effort to add up the collections of the world’s largest museums