The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded more than $480,000 to a Prairie Research Institute (PRI) project to preserve and digitize an extensive collection of Dominican amber that is in danger of deterioration without proper curation and care. The plants, arthropods, and vertebrates captured in the amber provide insights into life 16-18 million years ago, […]
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Digitization efforts make wealth of INHS collections more accessible
The Illinois Natural History Survey, a division of the Prairie Research Institute, is home to over 9 million biological specimens, including plants, insects, fish, reptiles, and fossils. Learn how we’re digitizing these specimens to make them accessible to everyone in this article from the Daily Illini.