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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Red-tailed hawk perched next to a pipe on its nest

Hawks Are Everywhere!

Red-tailed Hawks Nesting at the Coliseum
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Tropical reef with fish swimming around it

Science of SpongeBob: Marine Protected Areas

How can we preserve Bikini Bottoms around the world?
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Northern Lampfish
Research and Collections

A Deep Dive on Microplastics

Museum scientists are examining fish guts to understand the pervasiveness and types of plastics invading California waters over time, which may help us understand how that pollution affects sea creatures and even land-loving pescatarians.
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