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Adventures in Nature Day Camp: Fantastic Fossils

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through 08/01/25

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Children digging in a rocky, sand trough with replica fossils

nhm

Adventures in Nature Day Camp: Fantastic Fossils

Learn more

weekly

through 08/01/25

12:00 am

Children digging in a rocky, sand trough with replica fossils

nhm

Adventures in Nature Day Camp: Fantastic Fossils

Learn more

weekly

through 08/01/25

12:00 am

Children digging in a rocky, sand trough with replica fossils

nhm

Adventures in Nature Day Camp: Fantastic Fossils

Learn more

weekly

through 08/01/25

12:00 am

Children digging in a rocky, sand trough with replica fossils

nhm

Adventures in Nature Day Camp: Fantastic Fossils

Learn more

weekly

through 08/01/25

12:00 am

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Smilodon, Saber-Tooths, and Tigers…Oh My!

How Smilodon became saber-toothed tigers—and why they're really saber-toothed cats

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Nature Gardens Turn 10

A look back—and forward–at all the nature thriving in NHM’s Nature Gardens.

Tar Pits MGM Parody

Saber-toothed Cat 101

La Brea Tar Pits presents everything you need to know about saber-toothed cats.

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Suiting Up for Smilodon

An exhilaratingly lifelike recreation of a saber-toothed cat will thrill — and teach — audiences in Ice Age Encounters.

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Year of the Tiger

Celebrate the 2022 Lunar New Year with highlights from the collection

Gray Wolf Skull

Noggins for Noshing?

Animal diets, skull shapes and the limits of convergent evolution