The Ancient Odyssey of Crabs
An international team of scientists including NHM researchers chart crabs' sideways path from the ocean to dry land—a journey they've made at least 17 times since the Triassic.
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Digital Guide to La Brea Tar Pits
Explore La Brea Tar Pits—including the new Mark Dion exhibit Excavations—as well as over 160 international museums, galleries, sculpture parks, gardens, and cultural spaces on Bloomberg Connects, the free arts and culture app.
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Coyotes: Howling from the Ice Age
How coyotes survived the Ice Age extinction
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Smilodon, Saber-Tooths, and Tigers…Oh My!
How Smilodon became saber-toothed tigers—and why they're really saber-toothed cats
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Why Did the Ice Age Titans Go Extinct?
A new study reveals that human impacts in an environment made fire-prone by climate change and herbivore loss led to large mammals vanishing from southern California.
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Jurassic Perks
How Jurassic Park helped spark a boom in new dinosaur discoveries
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Playing With Fire: Extinction and Survival at La Brea Tar Pits
In California, 13,000 years ago, huge Ice Age mammals that had roamed the landscape for many millennia, suddenly ceased to exist. The cause? Humans, catastrophic fires, and an ecosystem made vulnerable by climate change.
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Geek Out in an Ice Age Daydream
Tar AR brings Ice Age animals back to L.A.
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Year of the Rabbit
Celebrate the 2023 Lunar New Year with highlights from the collection
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Wonderstruck
Little campers—and their parents—look back at the summer that they were blown away by science