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

Ailurarctos reconstruction Mauricio Anton
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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An opaque white and transparent mineral with many spiky outgrowths.
Research and Collections
The Secret Power of Zeolite
Our Curator of Mineral Sciences, Aaron Celestian, talks about why this mineral blows his mind!
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Dakota in Dino Hall
Step Inside a Dinosaur Puppet!
Get a behind-the-scenes look at the new Dinosaur Encounters.
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Chef in white coat
With Love, Biscotti
Nick Panepinto | Liberation Coffee House
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Huckleberry Cafe
Made With Love
Jennifer Toomey | Huckleberry Bakery & Café
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Esperanza Elementary Student Birders Yanny, Bryan, Ervin and Principal Brad Rumble
Nature in L.A.
Kickball. Soccer. Birding. Birding?!
By Esperanza Elementary School students Bryan Lopez, Ervin Paxtor, Yanny Reyes Sanchez, and their principal, Brad Rumble.  
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Two women sitting at table
Hot, Crumbly Buttery Love in a Biscuit
Monica May & Kristen Trattner | Nickel Diner
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Cave of swords
Research and Collections
Gypsum Crystals: Mineral Ships for Alien Life?
Can gypsum crystals hold alien life from Mars? Explore every facet of these incredible crystals with our Mineral Sciences Curator Aaron Celestian.
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