Today the Italian museums are extraordinary research on biodiversity, in many cases not only of Italian biodiversity, but also of many other countries around the world. Here are some examples:
- Trento-Tanzania: the elephant shrew in international cooperation. In Tanzania, research by Michele Menegon and Francesco Rovero of the Trento Museum of Natural Sciences, have discovered new species of amphibians and reptiles, including the elephant shrew (Rhynchocyon udzungwensis), with its more than 700 grams in weight and more than 560 mm in length is among the largest of the known ones. The research in Tanzania, one of the world's hot spots for biological richness, they also involved the local people living around the forests studied.
- Turin, the frogs of Madagascar and the very rare snake-worm. Together with WWF and the Zoological and Botanical Tzimbazaza, research by Franco Andreone the Regional Museum of Natural Sciences of Turin have discovered many new species of amphibians and reptiles of Madagascar, an island not yet reached by the pathogenic fungus that has decimated the amphibians in the rest of the world and this is a perfect laboratory for testing and preparatory actions protect the extraordinary malagasy frogs. Also in Madagascar have also zoologists Turin discovered a specimen of a rare kind of "snake-worm" (Xenotyphlops), enigmatic blind snake which had no news for over a century.
- Milan-Arabian Peninsula and the brooding "Solar Energy". Ornithologists of the Natural History Museum of Milan have described a previously unknown mode of incubation of the eggs, based on heating by the sun's heat: desert islands in the Arabian Peninsula Droma digging the tunnels that serve as incubators heated by the sun, while their parents dedicated to breeding only 28% of their time, leave their eggs for up to 58 hours. Apart Megapodidi, Galliformes widespread in Indonesia and Australia, leaving eggs and chicks to themselves after the deposition, similar cases are unknown among birds.
- Rome Mexico and the Middle East for hundreds of species ever seen. In recent years scholars of the Museum of Zoology University of Rome (Robert Winch, Valerio Sbordoni, Taglianti Augusto Vigna, Vincenzo Vomero Roman zoologists and many more) found in Mexico and the Middle East hundreds of species previously unknown to science.
- Rome-Australia and the new butterflies. Among the numerous searches of the Muses of Zoology of Rome, in 2009 the search for Alberto Zilli in Australia has discovered a new species of moth (Speiredona Darwinian), dedicated to Darwin in honor of the 150th of the publication of his work the origin of species.
few grains from the Collection - the most famous birds of Europe, 1 million shells and beetles are smaller than the world to the Museum of Zoology of Rome: the historical collection "Arrigoni degli Oddi" is the most famous collection European ornithology ever, about 15,000 specimens of birds from the period 1850-1930. With over one million specimens of shells, Monterosato collection, kept in "secret rooms" of the Museum, is one of the largest collections of Malacology (shells) around the world. And in Rome are also the world's smallest beetles, just half a millimeter long, part of the historical collection that includes nearly Luigioni 200.00 units. For lovers of the sea, the museum contains a diorama of the huge coral reef in the Red Sea, with a front display of nine meters. Dioramas
record in MILAN: It is the Museum of Natural History in Milan here the largest series Italian dioramas, up to 10 meters in front of each exhibit, to rebuild dozens of habitats, including prehistoric landscapes now lost, with pets from around the world.
The giant dinosaur in Bologna: the Museum of Paleontology Cappellini di Bologna houses a huge skeleton of Diplodocus, unique in Italy about 26 meters long and 4 high, arrived at the museum in 1909.
100 m watching in Calci (Pisa): the gallery of skeletons of cetaceans, a walk "underwater" no less than 100 meters long is the centerpiece of the Museum of Natural History and the Territory of Calci, the largest Italian collection of its kind.
Remember to stay in Genoa: the Natural History Museum of Genoa exhibits collections that are derived directly from the great voyages of exploration of the nineteenth century, with specimens from all over the world. Fish fossil
exclusive VERONA: Not far from the city, the field of Bolca in prehistoric times occupied by the sea, is an inexhaustible source of fish fossils, still mined today exclusively by members of one family and kept in the Natural History Museum of Verona.
Marine organisms of Naples: the last century, the Zoological Station Anton Dohrn is the most important marine biology research center in Italy, also appreciated by Darwin, with whom Anton Dohrn was in direct contact. The museum houses collections of marine organisms (difficult to manage because they are made mostly of water) prepared in a spectacular way.
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