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Naturalist Nature in L.A.

Nature Gardens Turn 10

A look back—and forward–at all the nature thriving in NHM’s Nature Gardens.
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Year of the Rabbit

Celebrate the 2023 Lunar New Year with highlights from the collection
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Depth Perceptions

NHM’s marine collections illuminate the shape of life in deep water.
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Saber-toothed Cat 101

La Brea Tar Pits presents everything you need to know about saber-toothed cats.
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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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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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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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