Hidden black and white feathers are the secret behind songbirds' dazzling colors
Colorful songbirds like tanagers use a painterly technique to make their colors pop
Exhibitions
Events
LBTP
Tours & Activities
Join a Museum Educator to hear about exciting discoveries from the Tar Pits! These are short presentations highlighting lesser known stories followed by a Q&A opportunity. Topics are always changing.
- 11:00 am
- 3:30 pm
11 am: Meet at the flagpole, just outside the Museum
3:30 pm: Meet outside the Fossil Lab inside the Museum
LBTP
Tours & Activities
Join a Museum Educator to hear about exciting discoveries from the Tar Pits! These are short presentations highlighting lesser known stories followed by a Q&A opportunity. Topics are always changing.
- 11:00 am
- 3:30 pm
11 am: Meet at the flagpole, just outside the Museum
3:30 pm: Meet outside the Fossil Lab inside the Museum
LBTP
Tours & Activities
Join a Museum Educator to hear about exciting discoveries from the Tar Pits! These are short presentations highlighting lesser known stories followed by a Q&A opportunity. Topics are always changing.
- 11:00 am
- 3:30 pm
11 am: Meet at the flagpole, just outside the Museum
3:30 pm: Meet outside the Fossil Lab inside the Museum
Stories
Discover more
Join Adam Clause, Herpetology and Urban Nature Research Center Postdoctoral Fellow, as he explores what he has been doing while sheltering-in-place, his research on how plastic litter might be threatening non-marine turtles, and how he worked with other departments in the museum to make his discoveries.
News & Press
The exceptionally rare fossil skull of a new bird species from the Age of Dinosaurs reveals that avian skulls achieved their recognizably modern shape using archaic structures—an unexpected but stunning example of parallel evolution—while also unearthing a missing link in the long evolutionary history of the bird brain.