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Glass blown and sculpted model of the golden bellapple (<em>Passiflora laurifolia</em>)
Glass Menagerie, 1863–1936
The father-and-son duo Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka crafted thousands of scientifically accurate models of plants and sea creatures as teaching aids. 
Glass Menagerie, 1863–1936
Glass Menagerie, 1863–1936

The father-and-son duo Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka crafted thousands of scientifically accurate models of plants and sea creatures as teaching aids. 

The father-and-son duo Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka crafted thousands of scientifically accurate models of plants and sea creatures as teaching aids. 

Natural History Museum

Glass-blown and sculpted model of the sea anemone (<em>Phymactis florida</em>)
Slideshow: The Lifelike Glass Models of Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka
Dan Robitzski | Feb 1, 2023 | 3 min read
The father-and-son duo, the last generations of a long line of renowned glassworkers, crafted thousands of realistic models of plants and sea creatures.
Q&A: Natural History Museums’ Role in Pandemic Surveillance
Max Kozlov | Jan 21, 2021 | 5 min read
Host vouchering, the practice of preserving species known to harbor infectious diseases, can be used to help determine a pathogen’s source, scientists say.
Image of the Day: Bacterial Blues
Catherine Offord | Nov 1, 2018 | 1 min read
A photograph of microbes producing the antibiotic actinorhodin is one of many images on display at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History this winter.
Saw-toothed Dinos
Amanda B. Keener | Jul 29, 2015 | 1 min read
Microscopic analysis of carnivorous dinosaur teeth reveals specialized serrated edges.
Fantastical Fish, circa 1719
Abby Olena, PhD | Jan 1, 2014 | 2 min read
A collection of colorful drawings compiled by publisher Louis Renard sheds light on eighteenth-century science.
Renard's Menagerie
Abby Olena, PhD | Dec 31, 2013 | 1 min read
Some of the fantastical marine life depicted in a rare, 18th-century book
The World in a Cabinet, 1600s
Sabrina Richards | Apr 1, 2012 | 2 min read
A 17th century Danish doctor arranges a museum of natural history oddities in his own home.
University Trims the Fat
Cristina Luiggi | Feb 28, 2012 | 1 min read
To save money, an Iowa university will shut down its natural history museum and K–12 teacher-training center.
Darwin Day Celebrations
Edyta Zielinska | Feb 13, 2012 | 1 min read
As institutions around the world start celebrations of Darwin Day, New York reveals a digitized catalog of Darwin’s scientific manuscripts.
Europe Funding Illegal Israeli Lab
Bob Grant | Jan 23, 2012 | 2 min read
Critics are shaming the European Commission for directing research funds to a laboratory operating in the occupied West Bank.
The beauty of fish bones
Jennifer Welsh | Jul 14, 2010 | 3 min read
Dead fish find new life in a new exhibit at the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences.
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