Frank-T. Krell
@frankkrell.bsky.social
Nationality: Human. Ethnicity: Human. Natural historian, taxonomist, zoologist. Living on the Colorado prairie, working at Colorado State University, and moving to the Smithsonian in November. Studying scarab beetles, and what is going on with taxonomy.
Today, a fascinating book on Animal Mummies was published by Sidestone Press in which Ben van den Bercken from the Allard Pierson and I have written a chapter on an incredibly well preserved beetle mummy that even made it onto the front cover of the book. www.researchgate.net/publication/...
September 24, 2025 at 4:03 AM
Today, a fascinating book on Animal Mummies was published by Sidestone Press in which Ben van den Bercken from the Allard Pierson and I have written a chapter on an incredibly well preserved beetle mummy that even made it onto the front cover of the book. www.researchgate.net/publication/...
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To be published in fall, but already in the press: a wonderful beetle mummy!
To be published in fall, but already in the press: a wonderful beetle mummy!
Check out this mummified dung beetle!
A local scientist got to study the "very rare" beetle mummy.
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July 15, 2025 at 3:56 PM
denverite.com/2025/07/15/m...
To be published in fall, but already in the press: a wonderful beetle mummy!
To be published in fall, but already in the press: a wonderful beetle mummy!
Today, a paper with the description (incl. COI barcodes) of four new species of the dung beetle genus Onthophagus from West Africa, was published in the journal Taxonomy: www.mdpi.com/2673-6500/5/...
April 19, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Today, a paper with the description (incl. COI barcodes) of four new species of the dung beetle genus Onthophagus from West Africa, was published in the journal Taxonomy: www.mdpi.com/2673-6500/5/...
Special Issue “Diversity and Taxonomy of Scarabaeoidea” by the journals "Taxonomy" and "Diversity", open for submissions. mdpi.com/.../diversit..., mdpi.com/.../taxonomy...
Editor-in-Chief: Frank-T. Krell
Editor-in-Chief: Frank-T. Krell
January 27, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Special Issue “Diversity and Taxonomy of Scarabaeoidea” by the journals "Taxonomy" and "Diversity", open for submissions. mdpi.com/.../diversit..., mdpi.com/.../taxonomy...
Editor-in-Chief: Frank-T. Krell
Editor-in-Chief: Frank-T. Krell
link.springer.com/article/10.1... One month ago we published a paper was published on the decline of taxonomic expertise, using the example of Hungary, based on several lines of evidence. My Hungarian colleagues compiled a wealth of data. The paper is open access in Biodiversity and Conservation.
Identification crisis: a fauna-wide estimate of biodiversity expertise shows massive decline in a Central European country - Biodiversity and Conservation
Expertise in biodiversity research (taxonomy, faunistics, conservation with taxonomic background) appears to decline worldwide. While the “taxonomic impediment” is discussed extensively in the literat...
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December 8, 2024 at 4:26 AM
link.springer.com/article/10.1... One month ago we published a paper was published on the decline of taxonomic expertise, using the example of Hungary, based on several lines of evidence. My Hungarian colleagues compiled a wealth of data. The paper is open access in Biodiversity and Conservation.