Tag: State Museum

The University of Nebraska State Museum’s new exhibit, “Goliaths,” features the world’s heavyweight insects and their relatives. It includes more than 1,000 specimens as well as digital and interactive components.

Biologist Rene Martin’s research revealed, for the first time, that birds-of-paradise are biofluorescent, meaning they absorb light from the sun and re-emit intensely bright colors. Martin’s work generated headlines across the world, including in The New York Times, the Guardian and Smithsonian Magazine.