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A color wheel of bird skins from the collection.
Research and Collections

The How and Why of Colorful Feathers

Equal parts ornithologist and evolutionary biologist, Assistant Ornithology Curator Dr. Allison Shultz has been investigating two questions throughout her research career: how are birds colorful, and why are birds colorful.
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Lisa Gonzalez at her microscope
Naturalist

Itsy-Bitsy Made Big

Our Insect Expert Trains Her Lens on the Tiny
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Luis and t rex trio
Research and Collections

Mind-Blown Science: Dr. Luis Chiappe and NHM's T. rex Trio

Dr. Luis Chiappe, Director of NHM's Dinosaur Institute, explains why NHM’s spectacular T. rex growth series blows his mind.
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mammoth exhibit tar pits mammoths and mastodons

Meet Hayden, the Metro Mammoth

A juvenile mammoth that was discovered during a dig for the new Metro
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T. rex skull in Dinosaur Hall

How to Grow a T. rex

How a T. rex growth series came to be
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Ant decapitating fly up-close
Research and Collections

Mind-Blown Science: The Ant-decapitating Fly

Violence in the insect world: a new type of ant decapitation
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Woolly Rhino in the snow.
Research and Collections

Woolly Rhino Fossil with Xiaoming Wang

Our researchers make exciting discoveries all over the world
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