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Burro-Ing Into the Past
How introduced donkeys and the indigenous pumas that love (to hunt) them are helping to resurrect extinct food webs in Death Valley
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L.A. Bats Under the Overpass
Counting the bats roosting along the L.A. River
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Ailurarctos reconstruction Mauricio Anton
Research and Collections
Eating bamboo? It's all in the wrist.
An ancient fossil reveals the earliest panda on an exclusively bamboo diet and the evolutionary history of panda's false thumbs
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Callie looking cute
Suiting Up for Smilodon
An exhilaratingly lifelike recreation of a saber-toothed cat will thrill — and teach — audiences in Ice Age Encounters.
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A Closer Look at Becoming Jane: Her Scientific Legacy
Join the next conversation live and in-person on March 25
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Research and Collections
Year of the Tiger
Celebrate the 2022 Lunar New Year with highlights from the collection
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Chimpanzee using stick
Chimpanzees: Redefining What It Means to Be Human
Dr. Jane Goodall’s scientific insights revealed how similar we are to chimpanzees.
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Gray Wolf Skull
Research and Collections
Noggins for Noshing?
Animal diets, skull shapes and the limits of convergent evolution
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Bactrian camels at the Griffith Park Zoo, circa 1910-1916.
Topsy the Camel
A camel that captured hearts and headlines rediscovered in NHM's Mammalogy Collections
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You Herd of Bison in L.A.?
Hoofing it through Ice Age Los Angeles
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