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To plan for the future, it’s sometimes necessary to look to the past. To improve natural history collection and analysis in the future, a team of researchers is looking at collections of plants from as far back as 1812. A team from The University of New...

Museum collections are key to the university’s mission to provide education, research, public service and economic development to the state, nationally, and internationally. A new paper entitled “Global natural history infrastructure requires...

The University of New Mexico’s Museum of Southwestern Biology, Natural Heritage New Mexico, and the New Mexico BioPark Society have announced the launch of a new website, the New Mexico Rare Arthropod Resource (NM-RARe). This site, located at...

Jessie L. Williamson, a research associate at the Museum of Southwestern Biology at UNM, is the recipient of the 2024 Tom L. Popejoy Dissertation Prize, which will be awarded during UNM’s fall graduate commencement ceremony on Dec. 12. Williamson is a...

An exhibit created by local eighth graders is now front and center inside one of the University of New Mexico's Biology buildings.  Two display cases inside Castetter Hall showcase the work of Lobo Science students, who have been creating the exhibit...

A new exhibit on The University of New Mexico's campus will showcase local eighth graders' work about the Museum of Southwestern Biology.  Lobo Science is a yearlong museum science class taught in collaboration with the Museum of Southwestern Biology...

Researchers from UNM’s Museum of Southwestern Biology (MSB) have uncovered the giant hummingbird’s extreme long-distance migration for the first time. Their eight-year study, Extreme elevational migration spurred cryptic speciation in giant hummingbirds...

A new book from a University of New Mexico researcher examines the wild carnivores of New Mexico, from the common striped skunk to the now extinct grizzly bear. Jean-Luc E. Cartron, a research professor in the UNM Department of Biology, teamed up with...

Bird collisions with buildings are nothing new, but a new study by scientists at The University of New Mexico sheds light on a potential cause.   The study, “Disentangling the biotic and abiotic drivers of bird-building collisions in a tropical Asian...

A team of researchers from The University of New Mexico’s Museum of Southwestern Biology (MSB) reported unexpectedly high levels of chemical contamination in wild birds and mammals at Holloman Air Force Base, near Alamogordo, N.M. in new research...