Year of the Tiger
Celebrate the 2022 Lunar New Year with highlights from the collection
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Fragmentary Fossils Help Tell the Whole Evolutionary Story
Paleontological “twigs” from our fossil past can help us reconstruct branches on the tree of life
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Earth's First Giant
The two-meter skull of a humongous new ichthyosaur species, Earth’s first known giant creature, reveals how both the extinct marine reptiles and modern whales became giants.
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Noggins for Noshing?
Animal diets, skull shapes and the limits of convergent evolution
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At the Feet of Mammoths
Meet some of the Ice Age minifauna still making their home in L.A.
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A Long Lived Leaper
NHM’s Prince Rogers Nelson the Western Spadefoot frog sets longevity record  
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Bon Voyage, Pondy
Our adorable western pond turtle has a new, amazing home!
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Science in a Half-Shell: Dissecting Turtles at Home
NHM researchers dig for plastic in freshwater turtles
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#MuseumLikeMe: Lizard Moves
Cold-blooded moves for hot summer days
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The Hummingbird-Sized Dinosaur Story
A tale of how science works
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