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Thousands Of Bird Specimens Preserved For Study In Philadelphia

PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania — “I can just pick up any one of those samples & tell you something remarkable about it,” Dr. Jason Weckstein remarked. The Associate Curator of Zoology at Drexel University’s Academy of Natural Science works in an office that is separated from hundreds of years of bird research. “We’re a research institute. Here, […]

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Local Nature News About Philadelphia

Nature may be found everywhere around us in Philadelphia. Natural landforms and habitats exist beneath the concrete and asphalt. Philadelphia is located in  river valley. Except for the northwest, Philadelphia is flat city. The Delaware & the smaller Schuylkill rivers edge the city. Landforms The Atlantic Coastal Plain a the Piedmont Upland are the landforms […]

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