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Virtual Slide Show of the Carnivore Gallery Exhibit Posted

Tue, 05/18/2021 - 1:48pm

During the 2020/2021 gallery closure (due to COVID and nearby construction), Museum staff created a slide show of the Carnivore exhibit. Though a new exhibit is now on display in our gallery, you can still view a digital version of this popular exhibit.

A COVID Era Museum Internship

Mon, 04/19/2021 - 7:22pm

The COVID pandemic has caused many problems for the GMNH internship program especially due to the Museum Building being closed to non-staff. The UGA Collection of Arthropods (UGCA) accepted only one undergraduate intern this spring, Kerstin Thulé, who we expected to work at the Biological Sciences Building preparing off-site specimens. As the spring term progressed, however, we realized that another option was possible…

Georgia Museum of Natural History conducted the analysis, looking for more sightings

Thu, 02/14/2019 - 10:02am

When Wesley Huffmaster spotted a big, brightly colored and boldly patterned spider near his home in Colbert last fall, he knew it was unusual. Analysis of its physical characteristics and DNA by scientists at the Georgia Museum of Natural History at the University of Georgia have proven him right, confirming the first known occurrence in North America of Nephila clavata, the East Asian Joro spider. Their findings appear in the online open access…

A Whale of a Task!

Fri, 05/03/2013 - 10:21am

The Georgia Museum of Natural History is excited about the addition of hundreds of specimens of marine mammals and other animals to our research collection. These specimens include skins, skulls, postcranial skeletons, and fluid-preserved materials. We look forward to sharing this impressive collection with the public in the near future. The museum acquired these specimens recently from the Northeastern University Vertebrate Collection in Nahant…

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