Stories
Welcome to Stories, a place to explore—and be inspired by—the wonder of our natural and cultural worlds.
First Fridays: 20th Anniversary Season
Celebrating 20 years as Los Angeles’ premier museum after-hours experience
Year of the Horse
Celebrate the 2026 Lunar New Year, Year of the Horse, with highlights from the collection
Nature Gardens Wins Award
Distinguished for its home-grown organic gardening practices that eschew pesticides, our museum lets plants and insects co-exist.
The Songs of the Coquí Frog
The soothing sounds of home or a sonic menace? How you feel about the coquí's call depends on context, but when coquí frogs call in L.A. County, NHM's Herpetology Curator Dr. Greg Pauly answers.
2025 Excavated: A Look Back at Some of the Biggest NHM Discoveries
From prehistoric giant lizards and ancient raccoons to newly discovered spiders and heroic extinct dugongs, NHMLAC researchers had a busy year describing new species.
Meet some of the coolest creatures our researchers described this year, along with other inspiring discoveries.
For Ancient and Modern Seagrass Ecosystems, Having a (Sea)Cow Is Super Important
A new species of extinct dugong from the Persian Gulf highlights sea cows as underwater lawn mowers protecting biodiversity
Bygone Building Blocks
See how people have been utilizing minerals in all sorts of ways, from antiquity to today.
Return of the Short (Tyrant) King: A New Paper by Dinosaur Institute Researcher Shows Nanotyrannus Was Not a Juvenile T. rex
With the help of our T. rex growth series, researchers shows throat bones accurately record maturity in dinosaurs, establishing Nanotyrannus as a distinct species