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Coyote skull in the process of being cleaned by dermestid beetles

Behind the Scenes With The Flesh-Eating Beetles Preparing Museum Specimens

Meet the smallest and possibly most gruesome members of NHM's collection staff: flesh-eating Dermestid beetles. CONTENT WARNING: Specimen preparation is metal. There are a lot of images of dead animals in different states of decay and preparation below.

Tarantula mating season, tarantula in terrarium

Naturalist

Creepy, Crawly, Courtship

It’s a spider lover's favorite time of year—tarantula mating season!

LA Nature Quest

Join LA Nature Quest this October and discover and share biodiversity across Los Angeles

A Decade of Discoveries for 10 Years of Dino Fest

To mark 10 years of Dino Fest, we're looking back at 10 of the colossal discoveries by NHM researchers from the Age of Dinosaurs

Bat Specimens from the Mammalogy Collection laid back to back with their specimen tags visible

Research and Collections

Digitized Mammals

How the new digitization project Ranges is unlocking the potential of NHM's Mammalogy Collection

Latino woman in a white tank top and black capris standing next to a white lowrider car.

Riding Low, Rising High

Sandy Avila | Lady Lowriders

Dino Fest in capital white, orange, and pink letters next to an orange winged dinosaur, a blue dinosaur, and a head and shoulders portrait of Nate Smith

The 10 Theme Dinosaurs of Dino Fest

with paleontologist Nate Smith

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Bridget Altman Paskil at Ghost Ranch New Mexico

More than a rock

Our intrepid colleague's dig diary from her fossil-finding expedition to Ghost Ranch, New Mexico.

Orange and black banner in front of a dinosaur

NHM's Favorite Cinematic Dinos

Watch a video compilation of our top picks for the fiercest, weirdest, and kitschiest dinosaur movies through history. Travel back through their cinematic history from Jurassic Park's T. rex to Arlo, The Good Dinosaur.

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A Northern White Rhino Skeleton From the San Diego Zoo Comes to NHM

The new specimen highlights the crucial relationship zoos play in ensuring rare and endangered species are represented in museum collections.

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