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Bones of a cool Ice Age animal! Answer to FoW #35.

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December 5, 2014

What is it!? Freak of the Week #29

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September 19, 2014

OHC Curator E. S. Thomas warns about DDT use… in 1948!

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September 3, 2014

Thoughts on the Passenger Pigeon

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Black bears visit the Ohio History Center!

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Timber Rattlers — Going, Going, Not quite Gone!

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“There’s a dinosaur in my backseat!”

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That’s one HUGE rodent!

We had two international researchers make a special trip to Columbus this week just to examine specimens in the natural history collections! OK, they're from Canada, but that's still international right!? Anyway, we were pleased to welcome Tessa Plint and Dr. Fred Longstaffe of the Laboratory for Stable Isotope Science at the University of Western […]

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Happy Birthday, Rachel Carson!

Today is the 107th birthday of Rachel Carson. Unfortunately she died too young, at only 56 years old, of cancer. Ironically one of her greatest accomplishments was helping to ban agricultural use the synthetic pesticide DDT, which was later discovered to be linked to breast cancer. Her accomplishments are too numerous to describe in this […]

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August 24, 2011

Is Taxidermy Valuable for a Museum?