By accident, I ran across several videos that discuss a fabulous new project: the development of a digitized online museum collection. Below the jump is a video that introduces InvertNet. This online virtual museum will comprise more than 50 million digitized insect and arthropod specimens. These specimens -- some of which are as much as 160 years old -- are held in real-life collections at 22 institutions throughout the midwestern United States. guardian.co.uk/science/punctuated-equilibrium/2011/nov/10/1