Fossil Trees Help Grow Our Understanding of Ancient Climate
A new study reveals how ancient trees helped warm the planet in the last ice age
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Join a Museum Educator to hear about exciting discoveries from the Tar Pits! These 20-minute presentations highlight what we can learn at the Tar Pits, followed by a Q&A opportunity. Topics are always changing.
- 3:30 pm
3:30 pm daily: Meet at the Fossil Lab
11 am Sat./Sun.: Meet at the flagpole outside Museum
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Join an NHM scientist at the Scanning Electron Microscope Lab to learn how we use this important tool in discoveries about our natural world. Get an overview of this specialized equipment’s capabilities, see specimens in amazing detail, and have a chanc
- 11:00 am
Tuesdays and Thursdays
LBTP
Tours & Activities
Join a Museum Educator to hear about exciting discoveries from the Tar Pits! These 20-minute presentations highlight what we can learn at the Tar Pits, followed by a Q&A opportunity. Topics are always changing.
- 3:30 pm
3:30 pm daily: Meet at the Fossil Lab
11 am Sat./Sun.: Meet at the flagpole outside Museum
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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.
News & Press
“Symbiosis between Cretaceous dinosaurs and feather-feeding beetles” published in the scientific journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
The paper looks at amber fragments preserving the remains of feathers from the Early Cretaceous and larvae related to modern feather-feeding beetles in intimate contact