best_slug_photo snailblitz 2020 banana slug on the ground
Congratulations, Banana Slugs!
California finally has a state slug, just in time for Snail Search 2025
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House Finch Collection Drawer
Wildfire Smoke in Bird Feathers
NHM researchers look at dirty feathers to understand the effects of wildfire smoke on birds
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Juniper seeds
Solving a Juniper Seed Mystery at La Brea Tar Pits
How identifying a mysterious fossil seed reveals Ice Age climate change
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Aerial view of buildings with hand-written names over the streets
Street Names of Los Angeles
You may ride, drive, bike, run and walk your L.A. streets, but do you know the history behind L.A. street names?
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The panel 'White washing history' from L.A. History A Mexican Perspective
History, Uncensored
Uncovering a history of censorship that threatened two of L.A.'s most iconic murals
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The Douglas World Cruiser New Orleans in the foreground with the other planes in the distance air over Connecticut
Remembering the Douglas World Crusier's First Flight Around the World
Marking 100 Years since the Douglas World Cruisers circled the globe
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Nature walking up Elephant Hill
Community Conservation at Elephant Hill
How co-created community science helps in the fight to save East L.A.'s largest open space
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Harlan's ground sloth illustration
Walking With Giant Sloths
Take a (virtual) summer road trip to White Sands National Park to explore the fossilized tracks of giant ground sloths
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An adult petroleum fly Helaeomyia petrolei taken with a keyence microscope
Get Stuck on Petroleum Flies
KQED’s Deep Look gets up close and personal with the Tar Pits most successful (and smallest) predator
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UNLAB Mentees 2023 Group
Naturalist
Baccalaureates in Biodiversity
Meet the first graduating class of NHMLAC’s extraordinary mentorship and apprenticeship program—UNLAB (Understanding Nature and L.A. Biodiversity). Discover what eight college grads learned about fish, snails, and other creatures of the natural world from ancient times to the present—and how to protect them in the future. 
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