Opportunities in Undergraduate Research: Lemurs, Dermestids, and Me
Freshman Alice Stubbs recently joined the Terhune Lab as an undergraduate researcher. In this blog post she describes what it's like to find a research lab to work in and what her lab duties are. Welcome to the lab Alice!You may be wondering what’s it like...
Warm Wishes & New Insight into Dermestid Colony Use
Undergrad researcher Lydia Haake has recently completed her undergraduate thesis concerning the best practices of using dermestid beetle colonies for cleaning specimens using house mice and the results are in! The species of dermestid beetle species used...
Disarticulation Station
The most recent specimen cleaned in the Terhune lab's dermestid colony was an adult North American River Otter or Lontra canadensis that was killed by a local dog and donated to the Terhune lab. While the otter's cranium was broken and stored in formalin for later...
Veiled Chameleon Dissection and Timelapse
For the past couple weeks the Terhune Lab has been cleaning chameleons for the Willson Lab in the Department of Biological Sciences here at UArk. The video below is a timelapse of the beetles cleaning an adult veiled chameleon (Chamaeleo calyptratus) over the course...
Happy Holidays from the Terhune Lab!
We wish you a Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays from the Terhune Lab! Unfortunately, one of our local chipmunks will not be singing this year due to a tragic accident involving the neighbor's dog. However, we at the Terhune lab believe it would have wanted its body...
Guinea Pigs Galore: Group Dissection and Timelapse
This week our dermestid colony is cleaning a group of baby guinea pigs
Roadkill Revitalized
Our latest specimen receiving a dermestid beetle cleaning is a large male Virginia opossum or Didelphis virginiana. It is commonly known as the North American opossum since it is the only marsupial found in United States! Unfortunately, our male was hit by a car but...
Python Timelapse
The following video is a timelapse of the lab’s dermestid colony cleaning a large Green Tree Python, Morelia viridis, and smaller Ball Python, Python regius over the course of two weeks. Morelia viridis originates from both Southeast Asia and Oceanic rainforests. It...
Snakes… why’d it have to be snakes?
We had a packed house in the Terhune Lab yesterday for dissection and preparation of two snakes (one green tree python and one ball python, both donated to the lab after natural deaths) for our beetle colony. Dissecting the snakes with UArk biology faculty and grad...
Happy Holidays from the Terhune Lab!
The Terhune biological anthropology lab at the University of Arkansas wishes you happy holidays. We hope you enjoyed your holiday meals as much as our dermestid beetles enjoyed their turkey dinner!