Check out this week’s featured specimen!


(Pictured below, really close up!)


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Photo: H. Vannoy Davis © California Academy of Sciences


Can you guess what it is?


Here are some hints:

  • This species has been reported in the western and midwestern United States, as well as southern Canada.
  • This animal has a thick coat of hairs.



Leave us a comment with your answer! Then come see us outside the Project Lab on Friday, August 12th at 11:30 AM for Specimen Spotlight in order to find out if you’re right.

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