The Nation's Attic—or the Whale Warehouse? In a recent video, the “Brain Scoop” web series tours the National Museum of Natural History's facility for storage of whale specimens. [via Washington Post]
Following a recent restoration, the UK Oak Project dated a medieval Welsh house using chemical analysis of the oxygen isotopes in its oak timbers. [via Art Newspaper]
The CDC has released its very own limited-edition version of Oregon Trail, 1918 Pandemic Trail. [via Center for Preparedness and Response]
Smithsonian Magazine profiles two early 20th-century paleontology volunteers who composed Christmas greetings with their microfossil specimens. [via Smithsonian Magazine]
Colossal has posted a list of its ten most popular articles from 2018, including one where crayons get squelched. [via Colossal]
If a recent paleontological study is right, feathers might be seventy million years older than previously thought! [via the New York Times]
A recent episode of Science Friday's “Undiscovered” details the rise of the once-spurned house cat. [via WNYC]
After months of speculation, the National Zoo’s naked mole-rat colony finally has a queen. [via DCist]
London’s Natural History Museum has digitized a once-lost fragment from a Megatherium (not Megatherium Club) fossil collected by Charles Darwin. [via infoDOCKET]
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