Results for "Arthropoda"
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The Quest for Walcott's Quarry
- Date: September 15, 2009
- Creator: Sarah Stauderman
- Description: [caption id="attachment_2239" align="aligncenter" width="324" caption="881. View of the cliff of Mount Burgess from the west slope of Mount Field, three (3) miles north of Field on the Canadian Pacific Railway (British Columbia, Canada). By C.D. Walcott, 1910. 4 x 5" kodak film. Digital image taken directly from nitrate negative.
Bug Hunting
- Date: September 16, 2014
- Description: In the early years of the National Museum of Natural History’s Insect Zoo, staff members, volunteers and their family ventured out to local field, streams and even monuments to collect specimens.
The World Is Yours: The Evolution of Life
- Date: July 21, 2020
- Creator: Kira M. Sobers
- Description: Take a listen to clips from the episode of The World Is Yours titled “The Evolution of Life.”
- Blog Post
A History of Celebrating the Insect Zoo
- Date: August 23, 2011
- Creator: Jennifer Wright
- Description: When you think of the National Museum of Natural History, what comes to mind are probably inanimate things—rocks and dinosaur bones, cultural objects, and stuffed animals. But did you know that the museum has a collection of live insects? Today is the 35th anniversary of the opening of the permanent installation of the Insect Zoo, though the Zoo actually began as a temporary
- Blog Post
“Fair Women Seeking Secrets of Plant and Animal Phenomena”
- Date: March 3, 2020
- Creator: Dr. Elizabeth Harmon
- Description: Exploring news coverage of women’s work in the sciences at the Smithsonian in the early twentieth century.
Smithsonian Women in Science in the Nineteenth Century
- Date: October 24, 2019
- Creator: Dr. Elizabeth Harmon
- Description: Learn more about some of the earliest women in science at the Smithsonian.
It's National Radio Day and The World Is Yours
- Date: August 20, 2020
- Description: This National Radio Day, we’re taking a look (and listen) back to a few recent blog posts that have featured clips from episodes of Smithsonian’s first radio program, The World Is Yours.