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Dinosaurs

Exhibitions

Visitors viewing an installation of a pregnant plesiosaur in the Dinosaur Hall

Step Into Our Award-winning Exhibition, and Enter the Age of Dinosaurs

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Watch real scientists prepare fossils every day.

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Events

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Aug

Puppeteer with long-neck dinosaur puppet and triceratops puppet in front of a diorama in the North American Mammal Hall

Dinosaur Encounters Sensory-Friendly Show

Live Theater Show Family

11:30 am

Fun, educational, and interactive, Dinosaur Encounters features NHM's life-size dinosaur puppets.

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Sat

14

Sep

Puppeteer with long-neck dinosaur puppet and triceratops puppet in front of a diorama in the North American Mammal Hall

Dinosaur Encounters Sensory-Friendly Show

Live Theater Show Family

11:30 am

Fun, educational, and interactive, Dinosaur Encounters features NHM's life-size dinosaur puppets.

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Sat

12

Oct

Puppeteer with long-neck dinosaur puppet and triceratops puppet in front of a diorama in the North American Mammal Hall

Dinosaur Encounters Sensory-Friendly Show

Live Theater Show Family

11:30 am

Fun, educational, and interactive, Dinosaur Encounters features NHM's life-size dinosaur puppets.

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Sat

09

Nov

Puppeteer with long-neck dinosaur puppet and triceratops puppet in front of a diorama in the North American Mammal Hall

Dinosaur Encounters Sensory-Friendly Show

Live Theater Show Family

11:30 am

Fun, educational, and interactive, Dinosaur Encounters features NHM's life-size dinosaur puppets.

Learn more

Sat

14

Dec

Puppeteer with long-neck dinosaur puppet and triceratops puppet in front of a diorama in the North American Mammal Hall

Dinosaur Encounters Sensory-Friendly Show

Live Theater Show Family

11:30 am

Fun, educational, and interactive, Dinosaur Encounters features NHM's life-size dinosaur puppets.

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Stories

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Gnatalie bones ready to ship

Wonder Is in Our Bones

How giant fossils expand the dimensions of our imagination

Preparator works on large bone in the Dino Lab

Earth's Green Giant

Fossil bones of Gnatalie, the long-necked dinosaur soon to be on display in NHM's new wing, were prepared in the Dinosaur Lab.

Rectangular stone with Maya glyph depicting a man holding a cacao plant. Campeche, Mexico. AD 600-900.

A Virtual Chocolate-y Tour of the Collections

Explore the collections of the Natural History Museum through the lens of chocolate!

Lunar New Year year of the dragon illustration

Year of the Dragon

Celebrate the 2024 Lunar New Year with highlights from the collection

Life reconstruction of fire at La Brea Tar Pits during the Pleistocene as bison are stuck during a wildfire

Why Did the Ice Age Titans Go Extinct?

A new study reveals that human impacts in an environment made fire-prone by climate change and herbivore loss led to large mammals vanishing from southern California.

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Jurassic Perks

How Jurassic Park helped spark a boom in new dinosaur discoveries

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The DIG - November 2022

The DIG - November 2022

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collections manager holding bone in dinosaur institute research and collections

The DIG - September 2021

The DIG - September 2021

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Drawer with fossils, hands holding one specimen

The DIG - December 2020

The DIG - December 2020

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Dinosaur Institute

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