Exhibitions
See how big discoveries can come from the tiniest things in the Gem and Mineral Hall.
Step into our award-winning Jane G. Pisano Dinosaur Hall, and enter the age of dinosaurs.
What happens after the fossils at La Brea Tar Pits are excavated? This is where you find out.
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Join Adam Clause, Herpetology and Urban Nature Research Center Postdoctoral Fellow, as he explores what he has been doing while sheltering-in-place, his research on how plastic litter might be threatening non-marine turtles, and how he worked with other departments in the museum to make his discoveries.
NHM scientists grow the number of insect species in California to more than 60,000 by DNA barcoding more than a million insect specimens as part of the California Insect Barcode Initiative
The strongest El Niño in more than a century is already bringing far-flung species into Southern California, with more expected in the coming months. Studying these specimens will help NHM researchers better understand the impacts of the tremendous climate event.
Study finds PETM was marked by a widespread browning of Earth's landscapes—against a backdrop of elevated atmospheric CO₂, global warming, and reduced rainfall triggered by volcanically driven carbon release—and trees are at the root of these drastic changes.
Along with the first description of an extinct species of amphibian from Rancho La Brea, the paper also identifies the first record of the Mexican burrowing toad at the Tar Pits, 2,500 km north of its current distribution, shedding light on the impacts of climate change on species distributions past, present, and future.
Unearthed in Ghost Ranch, New Mexico, Labrujasuchus expectatus—the ‘Witch Croc’—highlights the weirdness of life during the dawn of the dinosaurs and the legacy and ongoing discoveries at an iconic site 20 years into excavation
