Museum Blog
National Fossil Day: Spotlight on Alex Kittle
By Alisha Solaiman For National Fossil Day, we're shining the spotlight on our Collections Manager and invertebrate paleontologist, Alex Kittle. His interest in the field grew when he took a summer course in [...]
A Whale of a Tale: Bringing a Humpback Whale’s Bones to DMNH
by Lindsay Townsend The whale skull, arriving at DMNH in September. Last month, staff from the Delaware Museum of Natural History brought the 280 lbs. skull of a juvenile humpback whale, as [...]
First Brokaw fellow starts at DMNH to work on second Breeding Bird Atlas project
by Lindsay Townsend The Delaware Museum of Natural History welcomed its first Howard and Dede Brokaw Ornithology Fellow, Alex Johnson, to the museum this summer. Johnson spent the summer helping the museum’s [...]
Unusual Guillemot Egg Aids Researchers
by Lindsay Townsend This auk egg, from Bempton Cliffs in Yorkshire England, was a popular collectors item. The area is now a nature reserve. It’s like something out of a movie—the egg [...]
A Book for Adventurers Book Review by Lindsay Townsend Cabinet of Curiosities: Collecting and Understanding the Wonders of the Natural World By Gordon Grice 188 pages. Workman Publishing. 2015 “Science is an attempt to [...]