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5 unusual facts about Peabody Museum of Natural History


Black and rufous elephant shrew

Two black and rufous elephant shrew males were born on February 4, 2007, at the National Zoo in Washington, D.C. They are now kept at the Peabody Museum of Natural History at Yale University.

Edward Salisbury Dana

In 1885 he was made a trustee of the Peabody Museum of Yale.

Henry Sears

Sears' preserved specimens are now located at the Peabody Museum.

Peabody Museum of Natural History

The museum also owns Horse Island in the Thimble Islands, which is not opened to the public, but used for experiments.

Because these departments maintain a strong tradition of hiring faculty who will perform collections-based research, especially after the renewed support for organismal biology at Yale under President Richard Charles Levin and in particular former provost Alison Richard, nearly all of the collections are under active internal use and enjoy continuous and considerable growth.


Nothrotheriidae

One of the skeletons, found in a lava tube (cave) at Aden Crater, adjacent to Kilbourne Hole, New Mexico, still had skin and hair preserved, and is now at the Yale Peabody Museum.

Pseudodontornis

A pseudotooth bird's lower right dentary piece (specimen YPM 4617) from near Charleston, South Carolina (USA) – apparently dredged up from near the source of the Stono River – was provisionally assigned to P. longirostris as it closely matches the holotype in size and appearance.


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