All-around the earth, in countless numbers of museums, there are thousands and thousands of specimens representing the acknowledged organic range of our earth. Each and every just one of individuals specimens is a actual physical snapshot of time, well prepared and preserved by a collector in a very carefully curated assortment. They are frequently pressed in the internet pages of textbooks, sketched into drawings and notes, or saved in the jars and drawers of museums. These specimens involve all kinds of when-dwelling species — and can arrive at again hundreds of years.
These are frequently beautifully and artfully shown with calligraphy labels and exciting notes about the location of the assortment every cupboard or drawer is full of surprises. By recording and transcribing these museum collections digitally, citizen researchers — people today like you — are opening up obtain to this biodiversity facts for use in investigation and instruction.