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Welcome to Stories, a place to explore—and be inspired by—the wonder of our natural and cultural worlds.

Dune sedge, strawberry, and juniper make good lawn alternatives

Get Off Your Lawn

Quit cutting grass and start cutting down your water usage with inspiration from our Nature Gardens
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Birding with students at San Pascual Elementary School
Nature in L.A.

Let's Go Birding!

Join a student-guided avian adventure
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Man in garage with black shirt and glasses

L.A.’s OG Hawowshi

Amir Edward | The Original Hawowshi
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Ailurarctos reconstruction Mauricio Anton
Research and Collections

Eating bamboo? It's all in the wrist.

An ancient fossil reveals the earliest panda on an exclusively bamboo diet and the evolutionary history of panda's false thumbs
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An opaque white and transparent mineral with many spiky outgrowths.
Research and Collections

The Secret Power of Zeolite

Our Curator of Mineral Sciences, Aaron Celestian, talks about why this mineral blows his mind!
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Dakota in Dino Hall

Step Inside a Dinosaur Puppet!

Get a behind-the-scenes look at the new Dinosaur Encounters.
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Chef in white coat

With Love, Biscotti

Nick Panepinto | Liberation Coffee House
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