Posts Tagged: tardigrade sculpture
Oh, for a Water Bear Sculpture at the Bohart Museum!
If you can picture a huge water bear (tardigrade) sculpture gracing the entrance to the Bohart Museum of Entomology on Crocker Lane, UC Davis campus, the scientists need your help to make it happen. Kimsey, director of the Bohart Museum and UC Davis professor of entomology, hopes to fund the...
Lynn Kimsey, director of the Bohart Museum of Entomology, with part of the tardigrade collection. The Bohart collection includes some 25,000 slide-mounted specimens. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
The Bohart collection includes some 25,000 slide-mounted specimens. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
The Wonder of Water Bears, and Soon, a Sculpture at the Bohart
What a wonderful idea! The Bohart Museum of Entomology at UC Davis boasts one of the world's largest tardigrade (water bear) collections, and what Lynn Kimsey wants to do, will certainly add to that point. Kimsey, director of the Bohart Museum and UC Davis professor of entomology, plans to grace...
An artist's conception of a tardigrade sculpture in front of the Bohart Museum of Entomology.