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Sep

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Alliance Circle Luncheon

Fellows Talks

12 pm

Learn about new museum initiatives and meet one of NHMLAC's newest Curators at the Fall 2019 Alliance Circle Luncheon.

Dr. Lori Bettison-Varga, NHMLAC President and Director, will share exciting details about the next phase of our family of museums. Then, Dr. Austin Hendy, Invertebrate Paleontology Curator, will give a talk on his research projects and vision for the third largest collection of arthropods, molluscs, echinoderms, and corals in the world. Following his presentation, Dr. Hendy will show some rare specimen from the collection, bringing an ancient world to life.

Complimentary lunch and refreshments will be provided.

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Sat

Mar

L.A. Nature Fest

Festival

9:30 am

L.A. Nature Fest is a two-day festival that celebrates L.A.'s wild side!

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Sun

Mar

L.A. Nature Fest

Festival

9:30 am

L.A. Nature Fest is a two-day festival that celebrates L.A.'s wild side!

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Stories

Oldest Fossils by Far

Stromatolites and trilobites

Treasure Boxes of the Ice Age

A decade of rich digs at Project 23

Meet Our Polar Explorer

Dr. Nathan Smith, Associate Curator of NHM’s Dinosaur Institute, is an experienced Antarctic fossil hunter.

Daejah Newton, with her sorting sheet looking at fossils

Fossil Hunters in the Classroom

This year, almost 700 students at six schools in L.A. have participated in microfossil sorting.

A few of the six-million-year-old coprolites (fossilized feces) of extinct bone-crushing dogs; the one on the right has visible bits of bone sticking out. (Ouch.)

The Proof Is in the Pooping

Fossilized feces help confirm the diet of extinct “bone-crushing” dogs

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The holotype skeleton of the extinct aquatic herbivore Neoparadoxia cecilialina from the Monterey Formation of Orange County.

Vertebrate Paleontology

Vertebrate Paleontology is the study of ancient animals that have a vertebral column including fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals.

Project Paleo

Do you want to be a paleontologist? Do you want to be a curator of natural history collections? Project Paleo is your opportunity to work with fossils and contribute to the curation of Natural History Museums of Los Angeles County's collections.