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News & Press Archive

A Lighthouse in the Gobi Desert

A new study quantifies the impact of the world’s great fossil sites on our understanding of evolutionary relationships between fossil groups and discovers the key to understanding lizard evolutionary history in the Gobi Desert.

New Study Finds Life on Land Is More Vulnerable to Mass Extinctions Than Life in the Oceans and Takes Longer to Recover

Paleoecologists, paleontologists, and geologists — including many from NHM’s Dinosaur Institute — found that significant loss of animal life in terrestrial ecosystems more easily leads to collapse than in marine ecosystems, and those ensuing collapses last much longer on land.

Natural History Museum Announces 2024 First Fridays Season: From Feelings to Pheromones

NHM’s most popular annual after-hours series returns with a theme that addresses the science behind human and animal attraction.
March 1 through June 7, 2024.

NHMLAC Announces Winter and Spring Programming for the Natural History Museum and La Brea Tar Pits

Giant gems, stories about chocolate, the return of First Fridays, and more fill the calendar for the upcoming seasons

Natural History Museums of Los Angeles County Announces Artists Selected for Reframing Dioramas, an Exhibition Exploring the Art, History, and Enduring Value of Diorama Halls

Saul Becker, Lauren Schoth, and three artists working as a collective, RFX1 (Jason Chang), Joel Fernando, and Yesenia Prieto, will create site-specific installations in a newly opened diorama hall 

This exhibition is part of PST ART: Art & Science Collide, opening September 2024