Unable to be bred in captivity, the last documented specimen died in the Hobart Zoo in 1936.
While frozen woolly mammoth carcasses had been excavated by Europeans as early as 1728, the first fully documented specimen was discovered near the delta of the Lena River in 1799 by Ossip Schumachov, a Siberian hunter.
This guide can be used for describing developmental series of any vertebrate species or for documenting specimen variability of a particular species.
WGJ documented specimen and performed phylogenetic analyses together with TRL.
His studies expanded, eventually focusing on marine life, collecting and documenting specimens of salt and fresh water fish, crustaceans, corals, eels, turtles, and other marine plant life over the next thirty years.
We reviewed documented specimens of the lepidopteran fossil record, currently consisting of 4,593 known specimens that are comprised of 4,262 body fossils and 331 trace fossils.
It is our joint professional responsibility to follow procedures that will ensure the quality of the biospecimen and to document the specimen handling history for the patient's record.
In the past 12 months, SQA have also published nearly 1,000 subject assessment support documents, including, specimen question papers, coursework information and unit assessment support packs.
A section devoted to Cuban flora includes the damaged drawings and paintings of Francisco Adolfo Sauvalle, done in the mid-19th century, which show how difficult it was to document botanical specimens in a tropical region where paper provided a feast for insects.
Getting enough volunteers to document plant specimens from the dusty 19th-century archives of British collections, for example, might seem like a hopeless task yet that is exactly what Herbaria@home is doing.The project was launched last year by Tom Humphrey of the Manchester Museum, and already some 12,000 herbarium specimens have been documented by volunteers.
