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Monday Megalops

Well, the time has come, June is here! This means that the Exploring Minnesota’s Natural History grant project has come to an end. The final metadata has been sent to the University Libraries web developers, and the digitized materials from…


Catch of the Day

With Minnesota fishing licenses set to expire tomorrow, we thought we should share some of the fishy photos from the negatives in the Bell Museum of Natural History records to commemorate the close of the 2013 angling season. Cast your…


EEK!

With State Ornithologist Thomas Sadler Roberts at the helm of the University’s natural history museum by 1915, you can be certain that birds were a primary focus of the museum program in the first quarter of the 20th century. Yet…


Catch of the Day

– Silver bass, Lake Itasca, 1902 – Yellow Perch, Lake Itasca, August 1902 Did you “catch” something different about the first image of the Yellow Perch?…