Bison close up for featured image

You Herd of Bison in L.A.?

Hoofing it through Ice Age Los Angeles
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Bison Teeth 3D Model Close Up for Header Image
Research and Collections

Sample Tar Pits' Paleo Diets

Gnawing questions answered with fossilized teeth
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Sabertooth cat skeleton and notecard with field notes

Get Sedimental With La Brea Tar Pits

Help transcribe 'dig' field notes for fossils excavated since 1969
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Clever Mary Music Video Illustration

Clever Mary: The Song of Mary Anning, A Hero of Paleontology

Sing along with NHM's Performing Arts team in celebration of Mary Anning, an overlooked matriarch of paleontology
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212 million years ago, in what is now Ghost Ranch, New Mexico, a group of Dromomeron romeri pause for a drink while several pterosaurs, now known to be their close evolutionary relatives, fly overhead. Image by Stephanie Abramowicz, Dinosaur Institute, NHMLAC
Naturalist

Dig Deeper Into Pterosaurs' Evolutionary Flight Path

NHM paleontologists take a big step in solving the mystery of pterosaurs' natural history
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Male walruses relaxing
Research and Collections

Walruses: On the Tusk of Greatness

With the discovery of the oldest tusked walrus yet, NHM scientists are getting to the root of the walrus’ long tooth.
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Clear glass drug bottle from turn of the century

Message From A Bottle

Finds from Exposition Park excavations reveal past lives.
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Preparator James Preston working on fossils from home.
Research and Collections

A Different Kind of Prepping

For Vertebrate Paleontology Preparator James Preston, science doesn’t stop.
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