Stories

Welcome to Stories, a place to explore—and be inspired by—the wonder of our natural and cultural worlds.

Our 10 Year Dinoversary

Celebrating the first decade of NHM's ground-shaking Dinosaur Hall

Noggins for Noshing?

Animal diets, skull shapes and the limits of convergent evolution

Colima Dogs

Best Friends Forever

Margo’s Dresses of Resiliency

Originally costumes for the stage, these dresses cared for by the Museum are now artifacts that demonstrate the resilience against conspiracy amid country-wide hysteria.

Gems of the Americas

Take a trip through deep time — via the 1980s — and explore gems with a vintage NHM documentary

Topsy the Camel

A camel that captured hearts and headlines rediscovered in NHM's Mammalogy Collections

Horsing Around at La Brea Tar Pits

Say giddy up to the Western horse

Performance Anxiety: Olympics in Hard Times

The 1932 Los Angeles Olympics under the shadow of the Great Depression

The Great Shark Hunt

A community effort to uncover ancient L.A.