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Storytime Live

Special Program FamilyYouth

10 am

Join a Gallery Interpreter for a live reading of one of their favorite books on FaceBook Live.

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Sep

Dino Puppet Meet and Greet

Live Theater Show FamilyYouth

11 am

Come and meet one of our Dinosaur Puppets and a Puppeteer from the Museum's Performing Arts team.

Fri

Sep

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Dino Fest Digging Deeper Dino Discussion

Talks Adult

4 pm

Learn more about paleontology in this discussion about dinosaurs.

Stories

Virtual Tour of Dino Hall - Mandarin Chinese

A virtual visit to the Age of Dinosaurs

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My Virtual Museum Home

Put on your Nature Eyes and #MuseumFromHome in an all-new way with Animal Crossing

An American Icon, Once Endangered

The natural history and near extinction of the most American of mammals

Virtual Tour of Dino Hall - Eastern and Western Armenian Language

A virtual visit to the Age of Dinosaurs

A Fossilized Turtle Revealed

Uncover the methods behind preparing fossils with Vertebrate Paleontology Department preparator Alan Zdinak.

From Giant Ground Sloths to Tiny Poops

Global tar pits reveal past ecosystems

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Gypsum Cave

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.