Clockwise from top: A soft coral in the family Alyconiidae, an Argonaut (also known as a pelagic octopus), sea anenome, sea anenome (single), leopard slug
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Deep in the shadows of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, a collection of animals waits, frozen. Long dead and preserved by taxidermy, they n... Read More
The insect world is so diverse that if you lined up every living organism on the planet side by side, every fifth one would be a type of beetle — with beetles b... Read More
Everybody loves a circus — except when life has become a mad circus and citizens see the “tent” around them as a prison, as was the experience of many Polish ci... Read More
The Drexel Historic Costume Collection, which was previously open by appointment only, has recently launched educational seminars at Drexel’s URBN Center on the... Read More
Every hour on the hour, a majestic 12-foot clock outside of Provost Mark Greenberg’s office in Drexel’s Main Building tells the time with a series of modest gon... Read More
Among the many treasures of The Drexel Collection are 200 beautiful and unique 19th-century Japanese woodblock prints that were donated to the Collection by Jam... Read More
Autumn on the Wissahickon, a magnificent landscape of Philadelphia's woods along the Wissahickon Creek, by Thomas Moran, is one the most significant paintings i... Read More