Museums including Washington Smithsonian have get out to digitally record fossils in their collection. The bid to create a global digital museums has been welcomed by scientists, who say it will enable them to study valuable specimens that are currently hidden in museums drawers. Museums including London Natural History Museums and the Smithsonian in Washington DC are involved. They have get out ambitious plans to digitise millions of specimens. Digitally recording the 40 million fossils at the Smithsonian will take an estimate 50 years. But five years into the project, the team say it is bringing dark date into the light for crucial research. Kathy Hollis from the Smithsonian Museums of Natural History, who is leading the project there explained, We are trying to make our entire collection available digitally for researchers to used online from anywhere in the world. And were pretty sure that this is the largest fossil collection in the world. We have over 40 million specimens in the collection it record the entire history of life, so if it has a fossil representative its likely here within the collection. Items on publicy display in museums represents only a tiny fraction of the collection stored away in drawers. This is problematic if scientists want to used all the specimens. In a recent paper in the Royal Societys journal Biology Letters, scientists described the process of digitising museums collection as mobilising dark date The authors said this would enhance researchers ability to understand how our environment changed in the last and therefore to build a pictures of the impact of future environmental changed. Adoptep from: https://wws.bbc.come/news/science-environment 46497406 (5th December 2018) What will the Museums do to the fossils?

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Museums including Washington Smithsonian have get out to digitally record fossils in their collection. The bid to create a global digital museums has been welcomed by scientists, who say it will enable them to study valuable specimens that are currently hidden in museums drawers. Museums including London Natural History Museums and the Smithsonian in Washington DC are involved. They have get out ambitious plans to digitise millions of specimens. Digitally recording the 40 million fossils at the Smithsonian will take an estimate 50 years. But five years into the project, the team say it is bringing dark date into the light for crucial research. Kathy Hollis from the Smithsonian Museums of Natural History, who is leading the project there explained, We are trying to make our entire collection available digitally for researchers to used online from anywhere in the world. And were pretty sure that this is the largest fossil collection in the world. We have over 40 million specimens in the collection it record the entire history of life, so if it has a fossil representative its likely here within the collection. Items on publicy display in museums represents only a tiny fraction of the collection stored away in drawers. This is problematic if scientists want to used all the specimens. In a recent paper in the Royal Societys journal Biology Letters, scientists described the process of digitising museums collection as mobilising dark date The authors said this would enhance researchers ability to understand how our environment changed in the last and therefore to build a pictures of the impact of future environmental changed. Adoptep from: https://wws.bbc.come/news/science-environment 46497406 (5th December 2018)

What will the Museums do to the fossils?

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