Birmingham Museums’ natural science collection is playing a vital role in supporting scientific research to help protect wildlife species under threat. With around 250,000 specimens, the collection is the largest resource of its type in the West Midlands, covering modern biodiversity and the history of life and our planet. Recently, one of the scales from a Pangolin (on display at Thinktank, Birmingham Science Museum) was sent to the Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre (SUERC) to