Stories

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

La Ciencia de Bob Esponja: Salvando Nuestro Oceanó

¡Descubre lo que podemos hacer para defender a los animales del océano!

Science of SpongeBob: Saving Our Ocean

Discover what we can do to defend ocean animals!

Science of SpongeBob: SpongeBob Characters IRL

How similar are these iconic characters to their ocean counterparts?

Science of SpongeBob: Scientific Names

How do scientists come up with those unique names?

Sir Lady Java

History and Legacy of a Trans Rights Hero

The Anglerfish Artist

Dwight Hwang, an expert at the traditional Japanese printing technique called gyotaku, was invited to the museum recently to perform a marriage of art and science

At the Feet of Mammoths

Meet some of the Ice Age minifauna still making their home in L.A.

Sample Tar Pits' Paleo Diets

Gnawing questions answered with fossilized teeth

A Rare Deep Sea Gem Arrives at NHM

A Pacific footballfish, a type of anglerfish that typically lives thousands of feet underwater, and that washed ashore at the beach, is now part of our Ichthyology Collection.