Labrujasuchus headshot
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Our Changing Planet

Whether through fossil digs, bug hunts, or ocean dives, NHMLAC is uniquely situated to gather, study, and share new knowledge about our changing environment.
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Aerial photograph of two people cleaning mammoth fossil
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Mammoth on Display

Zed is ready for his star turn in the reimagined Tar Pits
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Woman holds sundial shell
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Students Side-by-Side With Scientists

In our labs and collections rooms and out in the field, a rotating stream of exceptional students are part of an engine of discovery.
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museum installation of full-sized cryolophosaurus replica
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Your Big Antarctic Dinosaurs Takeaways

After adventuring from the world as it was—Pangaea to a life-size re-creation of Cryolophosaurus, we caught up with some of the museum’s explorers to ask them about their expedition experience.
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image of Gaper Clam
Nature in L.A.

Was Hancock Park Beachfront Property 120,000 Years Ago?

Pacific Gaper Clam: A large, common bivalve that inhabits sandy areas of bays along an open coast, often buried a foot or more.
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image of stromatolite, oldest fossil
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Oldest Fossils by Far

Stromatolites and trilobites
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Project 23 boxes and bins
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Our Rich Digs

More than a decade of rich digs at Project 23
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nate smith in antarctica
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Meet Our Polar Explorer

Dr. Nathan Smith, Associate Curator of NHM’s Dinosaur Institute, is an experienced Antarctic fossil hunter.
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Daejah Newton, with her sorting sheet looking at fossils

Fossil Hunters in the Classroom

This year, almost 700 students at six schools in L.A. have participated in microfossil sorting.
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