BE ADVISED: Due to multiple events in Exposition Park on Sunday, April 26, the Natural History Museum will be closing at 4 pm. Parking and traffic in the area will be impacted. Limited parking will be available in the Blue Parking Structure for $20 when you tell the attendant you are visiting the Natural History Museum of L.A. County. For questions, please call 213.763.3466 or email info@nhm.org.

Don't Fear the Spider

Rodrigo Monjaraz Ruedas breaks down why spiders are amazing

Don't Fear the Spider

Rodrigo Monjaraz Ruedas, NHM's Assistant Curator of Entomology, studies evolutionary biology and systematics of short-range endemic arthropods. His research combines fieldwork, museum collection data, morphology and phylogenomics to address specific questions about speciation, species delineation, morphological evolution, and biodiversity. Much of his research also emphasizes conservation biology, taxonomy and bioinformatics!