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Live Webcast Today! Behind-the-Scenes Tour of the NHMLA Dino Lab
The Dino Lab at the Natural History Museum, Los Angeles County, is a busy place. The lab is responsible for cleaning and repairing the fossils uncovered by its paleontologists, sculpting missing bones...
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Mantell and the Armored Dinosaurs
British geologist and paleontologist Gideon Mantell is famous for his contributions to the scientific discovery of dinosaurs. In 1825, he described and validly named the second dinosaur genus,...
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The Birth of Dinosaurs: Richard Owen and Dinosauria
Humans have been encountering the fossilized remains of dinosaurs for millennia. The myth of the dragon, for instance, may be based on discoveries of dinosaur fossils. As an example, Chinese historian,...
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Uncovering the Truth about Fossil Feces: Buckland, Anning, and Coprolites
When most people think about fossils, they generally think of body fossils, which are fossilized remains of parts of an organism's body. But there is another type of fossil: trace fossils. Trace...
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Illustrating Fossil Plants: The Enigmatic Artis
Phytology is an historic term, not widely used today, for the study of plants. Antediluvian was a term much used by early paleontologists to describe the "time before the great Biblical flood." These...
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Finishing #FossilFossick with #FossilStories
On October 9, we challenged Smithsonian Transcription volunteers to transcribe the field notes of Ladd, Ward, and G. Arthur Cooper. See the details of the challenge here.It took exactly three and a...
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From the Experts: Recommended Fossil Books!
We hope you've been enjoying the fossil-mania this week with Fossil Stories! We've been exploring the fascinating history of paleontology, learning some great fossil facts, and hearing from experts...
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From Scarborough to Svjatoj Nos: BHL's latest in-copyright additions
What do the Scarborough District, tigers, Socieded Cientifica Argentina, Auckland Institute and Museum, birds and the Svjatoj Nos wetlands have in common?Actually not much……except that they are the...
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Eerie Anatomy: Vesalius’ De humani corporis fabrica
This post originally published on the Smithsonian Libraries blog Unbound. See it here.Erin RushingOutreach LibrarianSmithsonian LibrariesHalloween is quickly approaching and with it comes the...
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Happy Retirement to Chris Mills!
This week, Chris Mills, Head of Library, Art, and Archives at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, celebrates his retirement. Chris has served as the Head of the Library at Kew since 2006, before which he...
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Using Art to Document Species: Cramer and the Lepidoptera
How could you make a visual record of a collection before the advent of photography? Through illustrations, of course. It was a desire to produce just such a record that prompted the creation of the...
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BHL receives the Internet Archive's Internet Heroes award at the 2015 Library...
Photo credit: Brad Shirakawa, Internet ArchiveThe Biodiversity Heritage Library was honored to receive the Internet Archive's Internet Heroes award at the 2015 Library Leaders' Forum in San Francisco,...
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The Australian Lepidoptera Heritage
Have you ever stumbled across a caterpillar and wondered what kind of adult moth or butterfly it would metamorphose into?Short of catching the caterpillar and actually observing what adult it becomes,...
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Travels in Southern Africa: William John Burchell
William John Burchell is credited "with having been the most prolific collector of botanical and zoological specimens." [1] During a four-year scientific exploration of South Africa, he amassed a...
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A Compelling Decade: Reviewing our Progress at the BHL Staff Meeting
Eight years ago I attended my first Biodiversity Heritage Library staff meeting at the Missouri Botanical Garden, and it was there I was asked to report at the meeting on what I thought the philosophy...
View ArticleUPDATE: Technical Issues with BHL Custom PDFs 11/22-11/23
Problems with the custom PDFs created on the BHL website on 11/22 and 11/23 have now been resolved. The links to access any PDFs that were generated during this time should now work. If you still...
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Report from GBIF 22 (Antananarivo, Madagascar, October 2015)
GBIF 22 (Antananarivo, Madagascar)From the TDWG and BHL Africa Workshop, BHL Director Martin Kalfatovic traveled to Madagascar for the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) 22nd Meeting. He...
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New Feature on BHL: Add Comments to a Book!
We are pleased to announce that we have added the ability to add comments to books in the BHL website!This new feature will allow you to easily share your discoveries while reading BHL books, highlight...
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BHL Data Dash - Dec 7th - 9th 2015
The Biodiversity Heritage Library is hosting a 48-hour data correction event on December 7-9 2015. We’re enlisting the help of you, the BHL community, to help us complete 10,000 pages from BHL’s OCR...
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Tree change for the Biodiversity Heritage Library Australia
This post originally published on the Museum Victoria blog. See the original post. Nicole KearneyCoordinator | Biodiversity Heritage Library Australia Museum VictoriaThe Biodiversity Heritage Library...
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