The Phi Kappa Phi UNM Chapter recently participated in a "highway clean-up" in collaboration with the UNM Exercise Science Club. The group says their goals are to make an impact on the cleanliness of the community, educate others about the...

The animal collections housed at zoos and natural history museums — living specimens in the first case, preserved in the other — constitute an exhaustive trove of information about Earth’s biodiversity. Yet, zoos and museums rarely share data with each...

Images of snake hemipenes (Nerodia Rhombifer) from zoo specimens that are port of Dr. Patricia Brennan’s research at Mount Holyoke College. 

Images of the Kaup's caecilian (Potamotyphlus kaupii) transferred from the Sedgwick County Zoo to the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History as part of their ongoing collaboration. 

An Asian elephant from the Oklahoma City Zoo passed away from unknown causes. After the Museum of Osteology prepared the specimen as a skeleton and found affected and deformed molars, that diagnosis was determined to be the cause of death. The zoo now uses new dental monitoring techniques on its elephants because of this interaction with the museum.