Bill Deverell, Director at Huntington-USC, in front of The Star in Becoming Los Angeles
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#MindBlownLA Bill Deverell and NHM's Shining Star
Director at Huntington-USC, shares how the history of an iconic star blows his mind.
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A bird sits in nature.
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Our Expert on Birds
Dr. Allison Shultz, Assistant Curator of Ornithology, comments on an alarming study.
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Landscape of a quarry in utah
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My Dinosaur Dig
Every year, NHM researchers (and sometimes, office folk like myself) make their way to an exclusive Utah dig site to unearth more and more dinosaur bones.
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Miguel and students look at camera trap photos community science wildlife
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A Campus Trek, Wildlife Camera In Hand
Esperanza elementary school students learn about camera trap technology.
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Teens helping out in the Fossil Lab as part of La Brea Tar Pits Teen Program
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Students Name a Puma
As if working with Ice Age fossils at the La Brea Tar Pits wasn’t cool enough, the job comes with one pretty unforgettable perk.
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bat stars, starfish
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Oceans Online
Digitization of collections unlocks climate clues.
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These little anemones were collected and photographed live, but have not yet been identified. Anemones are related to corals and jellies (also known as jellyfish, from back when anything in the ocean was a “fish”). Anemones look so peaceful with their saying tentacles, but they use those to sting animals that pass by so they can paralyze them and eat them.
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Tiny Marine Marvels
DISCO collects specimens down by the docks
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