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Live animals and hands-on interactives show you L.A.’s wild side.

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Ceacilian in a jar held by Neftali Camacho

The Giant Monsters of Herpetology Tour

A look at some of the reptile and amphibian specimens that have inspired some of film and television’s biggest, baddest monsters with Herpetology Collections Manager Neftali Camacho.

Elephant Hill Portrait

Elephant Hill Community Nature Celebration and Habitat Survey

Join community members and scientists, Saturday, October 14, to celebrate and study nature on Elephant Hill, an open space in North East L.A. valuable to humans and wildlife.

Children participating in a bioblitz

Welcome to the 2023 LA BioBlitz Challenge

Help discover the incredible biodiversity all over Los Angeles!

UNLAB Mentees 2023 Group

How Our Museum Grows

A unique and transformative museum mentorship program about biodiversity begins

Green returning to the Angeles National Forest in Southern California six months after the Station Fire.

Where There's Smoke

A look at what we know and don't know about how growing wildfires impact our natural world, and how we can learn to cope

Nature Gardens Explorers

Nature Gardens Turn 10

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

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snake live animals herpetology

The Museum's collection of amphibians and reptiles contains approximately 190,000 catalogued specimens from around the globe.

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Community Science

Community science (sometimes called citizen science) mobilizes volunteers to work alongside scientists to help answer questions about the world.

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GeckoWatch is a community science project to map the fine-scale distribution of nonnative geckos in the United States.

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