What kind of collections are maintained in the Museums research area?
We maintain approximately 9.2 million research specimens of plants, fossils, insects, spiders, marine invertebrates, birds, mammals, reptiles and amphibians, and minerals. For more details see our webpages at http://www.sdnhm.org/research/collections/trivia.html or within each individual science department, such as birds and mammals, entomology, or paleontology.