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C-145 spotted in the Silver Lake neighborhood, Photo Credit: National Park Service
Nature in L.A.
Coyotes of L.A.’s Urban Core: Using Science to Separate Fact from Fiction
The Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area formally announced this week that they launched the first study on urban coyotes of Los Angeles.  
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image of puma in the dark
Nature in L.A.
The Sound of Our Griffith Park Mountain Lion: P-22 and the Mysteries of Puma Communication
What comes to mind when you imagine the call of P-22, L.A.'s famous urban mountain lion?
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Girl in Griffith Park Ferndell Nature Museum
Nature in L.A.
The Scoop on Ferndell: Griffith Park's Enchanted "Nature Museum"
At the border of the Hollywood Hills and Los Feliz neighborhoods is an enchanting, tree-shaded half-mile trail of Griffith Park.
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film camera taste of history
Lights, Camera, Action
When you work in the NHM History Collections, you can find some rather mysterious objects.
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A close-up view of the glass rope sponge’s delicate silica spindles.
Woah, Check Out This Sponge
The glass rope sponge is a true marine oddity.
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meteorite opalstones
Behold! These Are Really Old!
By far the oldest items in our collections: our many meteorites
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Salamander in hand
Nature in L.A.
California Showers Bring Salamanders: Please Help us Find Them
Join us in some community science research to help us study salamanders across the L.A. area!
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opossum feet
Nature in L.A.
Look who didn't get stuck at La Brea Tar Pits
When colleagues at La Brea Tar Pits contacted me, seemingly out of the blue, to request my help with camera trap monitoring in one of their excavation sites, I was already eager to pay them a visit.
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cuban tree frog
Nature in L.A.
Los Angeles is Being Invaded by Frogs!
Sunday, September 6, 7:54 pm, my phone vibrates with an incoming text message.
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