Spooky Specimens

Get ready for our scariest event of the year! Ghosts and ghouls may make an appearance, as we get a special look at the archival specimens at the University of Minnesota Bell Museum. Whether or not we get a visit from the undead remains to be seen, but we will surely get a look at the bones and bodies left behind by many different creatures. We are grateful to our co-leader and co-founder, Dr. Kassandra Ford, and Dr. Sushma Reddy for showing us the collections that they curate at the museum: fish and birds, respectively! Although our event will be centered around dead things, we promise it will be a lively conversation appropriate for all ages.

While viewing live birds in the wild is important to our enjoyment of them, examining a bird after it passes away gives us a better scientific understanding the animal. The work that Dr. Ford…