A team of journalists and an expert from the Field Museum set out this week to find the renowned reptile that had been spotted on the Chicago River recently.
Of the Chicago museum’s 150 or so scientists, Steve Goodman is the only one who’s permanently in the field. For 35 years, he has worked in the island nation whose isolation makes it one of the planet’s most biologically rich places.
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Scientists have discovered techniques to obtain DNA samples from specimens previously thought to be near-impossible to obtain genetic data by using pickled snakes taken decades ago and housed in an underground bunker of collections.