Do you see blue and black here? The insect pictured above is a weevil from the genus Eupholus, a specimen in the entomology collection of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University. You’re looking […]
Tag: natural history
A Year of Finding New Life on This Planet
In most year-in-review posts, we take the opportunity to reflect on experiences and stories, both local and global, that we took note of over the past 12 months. But this one is about new finds […]
Fossils in the Big Apple and Other Urban Paleontology Adventures
There are fossils in New York’s Grand Central Station. It’s not a traveling museum exhibit. It’s not an exhibit at all. Hundreds of millions of years in the past, the limestone used to construct the […]
Drexel’s Moth Goes Full Circle
It was a surprise to Jon Gelhaus, curator of entomology at the Academy of Natural Sciences, when he came across the photo of a modest-looking moth in a book a few months ago. It was […]
Environmental Science 101, Day 1: Get Stuck In Mud
Remember when intro courses meant big lecture halls and sweeping overviews of everything there is to know about a discipline? Not this time. Environmental Science 101 at Drexel began in the mud. Freshmen majoring in environmental […]