… a baby Avocet! – Avocet, one young on hand, Turtle Lake, North Dakota, 1925 Museum taxidermist Jenness Richardson captured these young Avocets with his camera while on a collecting trip to Turtle Lake in North Dakota in 1925. -…
Car enthusiasts are currently descending upon Minneapolis to attend the Twin Cities Auto Show which opened over the weekend. The latest and greatest in chrome and horsepower will delight automobile enthusiasts through March 16. After seeing several advertisements on local…
Can you guess what is wrong with the image below? – Ambrosia trifida (Giant Ragweed) thirteen feet tall, May 1942….
When we began scanning the Ned L. Huff Lantern Slide Collection a few months ago, we had very little knowledge of just who Ned Huff was other than that he was a botany professor at the University. Ned was…
This Wednesday in our series chronicling the adventures of former Bell Museum preparator and director Walter J. Breckenridge, we share just how far – or high – Breckenridge went in order to study birds. In his autobiography, My Life in…
Part of the thrill for me in working on the Exploring Minnesota’s Natural History grant project is traveling to all sorts of new places around the state with each new image from the collections that come across my desk. As…