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Museum of Vertebrates Featured Articles

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Thousands of individual animals, hundreds of people, and many lifetimes of work makes for lots of great stories. Pick a feature below to peek behind the scenes.

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Looking for Frogs in Okefenokee Swamp Learn about the collecting expeditions to Okefenokee Swamp, GA in the early 1900's.	Things that go Bump in the Night Get the story behind how this largest wild-caught reticulated python, Ralph, made his way to Cornell.	Stuffed Animals or Time Capsules? Curator Kim Bostwick talks about how museum specimens are used to document how species are doing.
Fishing for African Catfish Curator John Friel needs to know how you define a new species; he keeps finding new ones!	Cornell's Ivory-bills A recent gift of a pair of birds at the Museum of Vertebrates causes Pat Leonard to muse about these Ivory-bill's origins.	Natural History Museums Video Overview Check out this 5 minute video of curator Kim Bostwick talking about what a natural history collection is and why they are so valuable.

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