Ringing the changes: What museum specimens reveal about climate change
Monday, August 19, 2013 - 09:30
in Paleontology & Archaeology
Butterflies collected as long ago as 1876 – the year Alexander Graham Bell made the world's first telephone call – are shedding new light on the earlier arrival of spring each year. Ecologists are using thousands of butterflies from museum collections to learn more about climate change.