A man shows a wolf skull to another man with a beard and a woman

NHM's Mammalogy Collection with NATGEO's Ronan Donovan & Dr. Xiaoming Wang

NHM's Vertebrate Paleontology Curator tours the photographer behind the Wolves exhibition through our collections
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Taxidermy zebra on display at a museum

Spotting Species with Zebra Stripes in the Mammalogy Collection

A horse researcher walks into the Mammalogy Collection...
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Silhouette of two wolves howling at sunset

A Behind-the-Scenes Look at the Wolves Stalking the Collections

A Behind-the-Scenes Look at the Wolves Stalking the Collections
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Fabricating Wilderness Cover

Fabricating Wilderness

Explore a new book on the history of NHM’s habitat dioramas on sale this September
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AR sloth and Sid the sloth from Ice Age movie

What kind of giant sloth is Sid from the Ice Age movies?

Our paleontologists get to the bottom of Sid the giant sloth’s species
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Life recreations American Mammoth Colombian Mastodon

Mammoths vs Mastodons: A La Brea Tar Pits Trunk Show

Discover the differences between Columbian mammoths and American mastodons
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The Lincoln Heights Whale skull being moved by staff on pallets outside the Museum

The Migration of the Lincoln Heights Whale

As modern whales make their annual journey across the ocean, discover one whale’s 10 million-year journey through time from Flat Top Hill to L.A. Underwater
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Rectangular stone with Maya glyph depicting a man holding a cacao plant. Campeche, Mexico. AD 600-900.

A Virtual Chocolate-y Tour of the Collections

Explore the collections of the Natural History Museum through the lens of chocolate!
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Lunar New Year year of the dragon illustration

Year of the Dragon

Celebrate the 2024 Lunar New Year, Year of the Dragon, with highlights from the collection 
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Coyote Tar Pits Illustration

Coyotes: Howling from the Ice Age

How coyotes survived the Ice Age extinction
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