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Mar
L.A. Nature Fest
L.A. Nature Fest is a two-day festival that celebrates L.A.'s wild side!
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15
Digitization of collections unlocks climate clues.
The last 66 million years of fish evolution
The glass rope sponge is a true marine oddity.
DISCO collects specimens down by the docks
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Most species on Earth are animals, and most animals are invertebrates, so most of the Earth’s astonishing biodiversity is in the invertebrate animals. The Marine Biodiversity Center is the museum’s core facility for the curation of these remarkable animals. Collections come to the museum from a variety of research projects and government agencies.
An ongoing program at the Natural History Museum aims to develop research and monitoring tools to enormously accelerate our ability to discover and investigate marine invertebrate biodiversity of California’s nearshore waters.
Our researchers are devoted to better understanding our coastal communities — both now and in the past — and the thousands of animals that live (or lived) there.
