best_slug_photo snailblitz 2020 banana slug on the ground
Congratulations, Banana Slugs!
California finally has a state slug, just in time for Snail Search 2025
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House Finch Collection Drawer
Wildfire Smoke in Bird Feathers
NHM researchers look at dirty feathers to understand the effects of wildfire smoke on birds
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Juniper seeds
Solving a Juniper Seed Mystery at La Brea Tar Pits
How identifying a mysterious fossil seed reveals Ice Age climate change
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A paleoart rendition of Eupachydiscus sp. by Cullen Townsend.
Research and Collections
Collections Staff Help Ammonites Come Out of Their Shells
Uncovering how digitization and collections management made a groundbreaking extinction study come to life
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Nature walking up Elephant Hill
Community Conservation at Elephant Hill
How co-created community science helps in the fight to save East L.A.'s largest open space
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Harlan's ground sloth illustration
Walking With Giant Sloths
Take a (virtual) summer road trip to White Sands National Park to explore the fossilized tracks of giant ground sloths
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An adult petroleum fly Helaeomyia petrolei taken with a keyence microscope
Get Stuck on Petroleum Flies
KQED’s Deep Look gets up close and personal with the Tar Pits most successful (and smallest) predator
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Fabricating Wilderness Cover
Fabricating Wilderness
Explore a new book on the history of NHM’s habitat dioramas on sale this September
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Red-tailed hawk perched next to a pipe on its nest
Hawks Are Everywhere!
Red-tailed Hawks Nesting at the Coliseum
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