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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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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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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A paleoart rendition of Eupachydiscus sp. by Cullen Townsend.
Research and Collections

Collections Staff Help Ammonites Come Out of Their Shells

Uncovering how digitization and collections management made a groundbreaking extinction study come to life
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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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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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